Greco-Latin (wasRe: New Guy)

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! =

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--- *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! =
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    Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]

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