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Re: Futurese

From:Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 2:12
>Way back in the 19th cent. Schleyer was worried about having >both /r/ and /l/ and designed his Volapük with only /l/ (tho the De Jong >revival also revived /r/. But if you're catering for Chinese, Japanese, >Korean and other speakers and want cultural neutrality it is questionable >whether both should be included.
Well, I've already posted a very extensive comment to justify this at Google groups. I'll proceed to post those comments here as soon as I finish replying to your replies. :-)
>>> vowels: .....|........................ i . y . u ..... | >>> .............|.......................... e . o ....... | >>> .............|............................ a ......... | >>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>> (p, t and k, aspirated; y, schwa) >> Why insist on aspiration? > >Indeed - why, e.g. do French speakers have to aspirate the voiceless stops? >I know from experience they find this difficult.
And I can assure you 100% trustworthy that aspiration is also "difficult" for Spanish speakers (so trustworthily assured as I myself am a native Spanish speaker). But, simply, is not just that aspiration is going to be found "difficult" by the speakers of those languages that don't use it, it's that ANY sound feature will be found "difficult" by the speakers of those languages which don't use it. Please, wait a little bit and then have a look at the extensive justification on the phoneme chart I'm going to post.
>>> 5) Basic vocabulary: MONOSYLLABIC > >Ah, just like Mon-ling :)
One of the very few things nobody complains and will ever complain about English is precisely its extensive use of monosyllabic words (I'm not sure if you've already noticed that a great deal of English basic words are in fact monosyllabic: one, of, the, few, thing, is, its, use, word, I, am, not, sure, if, you, have, that, a, great, deal, are, in, fact...).
>>> 6) Vocabulary sources: >>> (a) onomatopoeic / expressive >>> (b) "inspired" by existing languages (Lojban's method) >> What languages are on your list of inspiration? > >The same ones as lojban? Or will you use a much broader spectrum like, >e.g. Acadon?
A much broader spectrum.
>I suppose the point Peter and I making is that we've heard almost exactly >the same things before from other IAL constructors. I feel that if (and >it's a very big IF in my opinion) a contructed IAL is going to take off >it'll need some extra "secret ingredient".
Well, then please have a look at the syntactic structure. Best regards, Javier