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Greco-Latin (wasRe: New Guy)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Saturday, November 29, 2003, 7:55
W'lkum, Caleb!

In a message dated 2003:11:28 02:47:03 PM, cph9fa@ADMIRAL.UMSL.EDU writes:

> [ . . . ] I was noticing some of the discussion about >auxlangs, loglangs, artlangs, and natlangs. I don't really care much >for auxlangs, except to the extent that English seems to be becoming >pretty universal as an international language. But if people insist >on having a non-English auxlang, what's wrong with Latin? It worked >well for centuries from the Pax Romana, right up through the >Rennaissance.
Renaissance :) This hoary ol' Auxlang idea is still quite Eurocentric.
> Scientists still tend to use it as a sort of >international naming language, right? [. . . ]
No. ISV (Int'l Scientific Vocabulary) is a hybrid mangling of various historical versions/varieties of Greek and Latin - Pure Classical, Hybrid Classical, Renaissance and Modern hybrid classical-vernacular combining forms/"TechSpeak"/"TechnoBabble". Also ISV is a subset of what can be called "Greco-Latin(-ish)." AFAIK Interglossa and Glosa are the only 2 Auxlangs based on ISV Greco-Latin. My playful Joycean-like sci-fi-/neoFuturist-inspired "manglalang" (mangle + manga + lang) _g0miileg0_ is eclectically-based on heavily mutated roots and words from Modern hybrid classical-vernacular combining forms/"TechSpeak"/"TechnoBabble", Sanskrit, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Novial and Interlingua: = ¡gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ¡riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!] --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* --- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) http://www.boheme-magazine.net Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ¡gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ¡riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]

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