--- Andrew Nowicki <andrew@...> wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
> > ...but we try to avoid international
> > auxiliaries
> > because of the Highlander factor: there can
> > be only one. This only invites flame wars.
>
> I am not a flamer. Ygyde deserves your interest
> because
> its method of making compound words is simple
> and yet sophisticated.
I think you missed his point. Ygyde does _not_
deserve our attention for reasons of
IAL-politics.
It _does_ deserve our attention because it's a
conlang and we're interested in conlangs. We're
not, generally, interested in AL politicks.
Please send _those_ messages to Auxlang!
> Ygyde is not protected by copyright
> laws, so anyone can use its ideas in his own
> conlang.
OK. Whatever floats yer boat!
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> > Unfortunately, these three things are not
> > absolute
> > measures. A Mandarin speaker finds any
> > language
> > with any inflection at all troublesome to
> > learn,
> > but speakers of European languages have no
> > trouble
> > with simple inflectional systems. OTOH,
> > speakers
> > of most European langs finds tones
> > impossible to
> > manage, yet they are second nature to
> > Mandarin speakers.
>
> Ygyde has neither inflections nor tones, so it
> passes this test.
Then it's no good for those of us for whom
inflection is a prereq. See, no IAL can please
everyone, and in striving to do so falls flat!
> And women. On average, they see colors better
> than men.
Nah. They just come up with more irrelevant names
for them than men do. ;) I listened to six
different women look at the same pair of pants
today and they came up with at least nine
different colour names.
> > Anyway, I don't mean to rip your language
> > to
> > shreds, :-) but I do find claims of being
> > "easy
> > to learn" by "everybody" rather difficult
> > to live
> > up to.
>
> Well... at least it is easy to memorize,
Don't know about that. It all looks ugi igi uki
oco ilo to me. When everything looks the same
that way, when there's nothing to break up
monotony, it becomes harder to deal with rather
than easier.
> because there
> are only 180 root words and most compound words
> are easy to remember.
And? There are not many more required to function
at a basic level in any language.
Padraic.
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