Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

 --- Christian Thalmann a kive:

>  > Indeed, apart from you! Jovianto and Narbonido are much too silent... I
>  > wouldn't trust them.
>
> That's quite simple to explain.  Narbonido is silent because
> it's dead.
Indeed!

> Jovianto is silent because it outclasses any and
> all other IALs hands-down.
Nonsense! It is silent because no one wants to take the effort to learn it -
and rightly so!

> Your need for rabid bickering amongst each other clearly leaves
> no doubt about the desperate hopelessness of your situation.
Ah, but that is not bickering. I was just trying to save a poor, lost soul!

> All I have to do to prove my
> point is to wait a year or two and watch Jovianto conquer the
> world like wildfire.
>
> Heck, even a twenty page legal contract in J-o is more
> intuitively understandable than "Hello, how are you?" in VOS
> or NN.
So, how would you explain the fact, that in the League of Nations' "Short
Comparative Survey Into The Intelligability Of International Auxiliary
Languages" Jovianto ends last, by far? Sheesh, even the Jervans themselves can
neither understand nor speak it!

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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