Re: introduction Middelsprake

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
...
> I, as a Swedish-German speaker with a good
> knowledge of English can second that impression!
> In the unlikely event I were to do a Germanic
> auxlang I'd certainly avoid umlaut altogether, to
> ease both typing and speaking for English users,
> so I'd basically make it Common West Germanic (in
> the historical sense of that expression) without
> any length distinction(*), without umlaut and with
> simplified (like modern English).
With simplified what? (case?)

English has got umlaut (foot-feet) --- in fact, its continental ancestor
started the whole thing --- it just doesn't have umlauts or, in most
descriptions of most dialects, front vowels, and afaik the dialects
which do have front vowels (like Australian, New Zealand, and Scots)
never correspond to umlauts.

Fwiw, I find Middlesprake largely understandable, but that's only
because of the limited German and extensive knowledge of PGmc -> English
sound changes I have. It is probably more useful for North & continental
West Germanic speakers because they've generally had a longer history of
interaction. In my view this means trying to make it useful for English
speakers, at the expense of usefulness for other Germanic speakers, a
fruitless endeavor.

--
Tristan.

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