Re: "Esperanto V.2"

On 3/23/06, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:

[quoting the promoter of "Esperanto V.2"]
> It differs from the others project, because it is not made for just
> one person, like Esperanto and other languages, but it is constructed
> by all persons in the world."
Probably a minor confusion due to the writer not being
a native speaker of English -- likely they meant to say "not made
_by_ just one person..."

> That seemed amusing to me :) I don't give it much hope, though, since
> I don't really trust language design by committee. I can imagine that
> such things get marked by compromises, bickering, long-drawn-out
> discussions, and least-common-denominator features.
I think IALA Interlingua was partially done by committe, but with
Alexander Gode as a strong head primarily in charge.

More recently several auxlang/engelang designers have been very
open about listening to and responding to feedback from early testers
of the language, but the process still seems to work best when one person
can make the final decisions, at least in the earliest phase.

On 3/23/06, Michael Adams <michael.adams1@...> wrote:
> Thought Esperanto was more than just a Conlang, but was also
> becomming a living one as well?
It's been a living language at least since the first native speakers
grew up with it in the early 20th century, and arguably since
the first fluent real-time conversations were held in it in the late 1880s.
Zamenhof may have done the first phase of the construction
by himself, but he gave up control over the langauge definitively
after 1905 and in some sense maybe even earlier.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry

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