Re: Futurese

David Peterson wrote:
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>In a message dated 04/28/02 3:09:49 PM, uaxuctum@YAHOO.ES writes:
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><< 2) Script: standard 26-letter ROMAN ALPHABET >>
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>     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

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