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Re: World Lingos - Future International Lingo

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Saturday, August 26, 2000, 10:00
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. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================