Re: World Lingos - Future International Lingo

At 1:58 pm -0800 25/8/00, Mike Adams wrote:
>I think from the spread of humans that:
>
>English
>Chinese (Mandarin)
>Arabic
>Spanish
>And to a degree Hindi/Urdu will likely be the bases for a future
>international lingo, dominante lingos..
>
>With some major secondaries, such as Swahili, and one of the Malayo
>Polynesians as well .......
At 4:43 am -0400 26/8/00, Lassailly@AOL.COM wrote:
[snip]
>i vote for indonesian:-)
Well, yes - in this sort of list one must include Malayo-Indonesian which
is, of course, strictly a conlang used as an IAL among the polyglot
populations of Malaysia & Indonesia.

[snip]

>most IALists don't even try this kind of discussion.
>i think it's fortunate for the survival of auxlanging.
>
>mathias
I think you are, alas, right on the last point.  But there's been at least
one enlightened except, namely, Leo Moser who has expended a great deal of
time over many years doing, if I understand Mike, exactly what Mike
proposed in the last paragraph of his orginal email; and I quote:

>So maybe an idea is to create a Conlang that has the "best" of the major
>lingos of the near future. What do they have in common, what do they
>have in difference, what lingo could be easy to learn for all from the
>groups above, and what other possible world lingos for international use
>is there?
As I said, Leo has done considerable work on this and, on the sound
principle of "Why re-invent the wheel?", why not take a look at Leo's
Acadon.  IIRC the URL is simply: http://www.acadon.com

Ray.

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