Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen :


>Indeed, apart from you! Jovianto and Narbonido are much too silent... I
>wouldn't trust them.
Well, Jovianto is silent because it doesn't exist. It was a joke made by a
few Jovian students drunk from this strange liquid they dare call "wine",
and unfortunately some people (mostly against it) took it seriously.

As for Narbonido, it is silent because it has no intention to enter in this
kind of pointless debates. While the "big" ones fight over who's the best
IAL ever, the One and Only, they forget the speakers themselves, who feel
quickly betrayed by their leaders and quit the ranks of the Nova
Neokernokantopanto and Universala Venedikantidino Supersolanova. The
problems with those two movements is that they behave as dictatures, with
leaders who pretend to have the solutions for all the problems of the world
without ever listening to the people who are actually in trouble. On the
contrary, Narbonido promotes a completely democratic view of the world and
the auxlang problematic. It doesn't claim to be the best IAL ever. It
doesn't even claim that the world needs an IAL. It just provides one in
case it would need it. It treats people as adults and lets them decide for
themselves whether it's a good IAL or not, and whether it is necessary to
have one or not. It has no leader nor single creator, but a council of
helpers who are democratically elected by anyone who knows enough Narbonido
to read the election forms (and since Narbonido is designed for maximal
easiness for everyone, about everyone in the world can read those, and thus
can vote, and even be elected in the council). And since self-proclaimed
leaders are usually the worst leaders, by rule only those who didn't ever
manifest a desire to enter the council can be elected (it sounds
complicated, but Narbonido speakers are intelligent persons who can handle
those things with ease, especially thanks to the clarity of their
language). Even the features of the language are subject to vote, and the
council can only modify the language through referendum. This way, as new
speakers from all over the world decide to join the movement, their opinion
will always count, and the language slowly evolves (in a patient and
natural way) so that it stays as easy as possible for everyone to speak.
Since everyone participates in this evolution, there have never been a
split in the Narbonido community.

This way is so effective that independent studies have proven that someone
joining the Narbonido movement never ever leaves it and stays faithful to
the language until his or her death. And thanks to its decentralised
nature, the Narbonido movement has survived all the attempts from other IAL
movements to infiltrate and destroy it. Actually, quite a few of those
infiltrant have actually abandoned their mission and adopted Narbonido once
they recognised how poorly they had been treated by the leaders of their
former IAL movements :)) .

And a survey from the League of Nations has not so long ago shown that
while all other IAL movements are losing ground and number of speakers
(despite their claims), the Narbonido movement is the only one to keep on
growing, slowly, but steadily, and projections have been made that prove
that at this rate, the Narbonido movement will be bigger than all the other
IAL movements added together within a year. But the Narbonido speakers
don't take pride from this fact. Why being proud of what's only natural?
They go on their lives, speaking to people from all over the world, meeting
friends from the other side of the planet without ever having trouble with
the language barrier, and let the rest of the world decide what it wants to
do. If Narbonido is good enough, people will come to it by themselves (and
they do). If not, it will have been nice for the time it lasted, and people
will have had a nice experience, meeting other people, learning about other
cultures, and about tolerance. As such, you will never see a Narbonido
speaker bashing other IAL movements. People are adult enough to make their
own choices. If they are happy with another IAL, so be it. If not, they
will eventually abandon it and try another one.

Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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