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Re: Futurese

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Monday, April 29, 2002, 7:21
David Peterson wrote:
> >In a message dated 04/28/02 3:09:49 PM, uaxuctum@YAHOO.ES writes: > ><< 2) Script: standard 26-letter ROMAN ALPHABET >> > > There goes the culturally neutral...
Short of inventing a new script, the Roman alphabet got to be the culturally neutralest script around. And inventing a new script 'd be a major drawback - forcing presumtive speakers to learn even more and to buy new keyboards. Then you've got to question how culturally neutral the idea of a constructed IAL is. While the fact that almost all IAL schemes I've seen have been conjured up by westerners could be due to myself being a westerner who've mastered no non-western language, the very idea of solving the world's problems by a technical, "pragmatic" fix does seem pretty western to me. I could go on to argue that the very goal of cultural neutralcy is a pretty western idea, but I'm afraid I've stumbled deep into the mires of IAL-politics, and will therefore stop. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.