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Re: The Great Sundering (was Re: basic morphemes of a loglang)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, November 27, 2003, 21:52
Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> I'll leave it for auxlang designers to stage a > coup over thonder and retake Auxlang for the > language designers.
Not at all. The whole point of having a place of exile is to send others there, not to depart there voluntarily in hope of cilivizing the barbarians.
> Correct. The notions of "ease of use", > "simplicity to learn", "global impact and > outreach". That sort of thing. This is why I'd > consider BrSc et al to be artlangs, even if they > could in principal be implemented as auxlangs.
But those are exactly the design goals of xuxuxi, and some further typically auxlangy goals as well. The only difference between xuxuxi and Esperanto consists of the authors' intent (to overstate the case rather wildly). I am trying to design a proper auxlang on good auxlang principles -- the fact that I don't believe in auxlangs as necessary to salvation doesn't affect that. (Of course, xuxuxi is a failure even on its own terms, but I'm talking about it because I can be quite sure I know what I'm talking about.) -- Values of beeta will give rise to dom! John Cowan (5th/6th edition 'mv' said this if you tried http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to rename '.' or '..' entries; see jcowan@reutershealth.com http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html)

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Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>