Re: About the Gaelic-L thing

In a message dated 07/06/2002 08.04.20 AM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:

>I have this feeling that she may have confused Conlangers with
>Auxlangers...as those actually are designed to replace natlangs.
    ::dons horns and tail, plays with pitchfork...playing the Devil's
Advocate on behalf of auxlanging::

    Not always. Many current, reasonable-thinking auxlangers realize that any
Auxlang's best hope for acceptance - even limited acceptance - is best
represented as an "auxiliary"- L2 or L3... hence the older term "universal"
or "world" language has fallen into both disrepute and disuse.

In a message dated 07/06/2002 09.05.05 AM, cinga@GMX.NET writes:

>Well, auxlangs are "auxiliary" in that they are intended as a
>world-wide *second language*.  Unfortunately, not all auxlangers
>share that intention.
    A far more insidious linguistic threat is, of course, the spread of
"Globalist Pop Culture English" ;P

Hanuman Zhang

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