Re: Improved (Short) Ygyde

Joe Fatula wrote:
JF> ...But as an international language, Ygyde is competing
JF> with all other languages, natural and artificial.  For
JF> that reason, I (and anyone else in the world) would weigh
JF> Ygyde against any other language they know, asking
JF> themselves which is better for communication.  If one
JF> feels more awkward, it won't get used as much.

JF> Would you hang around if someone else were working on
JF> a language that made compound words from short roots?
JF> Inspired by both Ygyde and our earlier discussion of
JF> it, I'm thinking of making one myself.

I believe the sound of the language is the most important
feature for most speakers. This is why French is rather popular.
You may beat Ygyde if you make a language that sounds better.
Perhaps addition of 3 letter roots (CVV = consonant-vowel-vowel)
would improve the way it sounds. Maybe there should be two
alternative sets of roots: one set are the existing two letter
CV roots, while the other set is made of CVV and CCV roots.
Examples of CCV roots: gla, knu, mne, dwo, psi, sky. The 3
letter roots would replace two consecutive 2 letter roots in
some 7 letter words. Obviously, there are 90x90 combinations
of the CV-CV roots, so the CVV and CCV roots cannot replace
all the CV-CV combinations.

Yes, I am interested in this topic. Your main concern seems
to be the increase of the number of roots to make more precise
compound words. I do not believe that this matters much in the
real world. As you have already mentioned, IALs are competing
against natural languages, including English. If they do not
sound nice, they will loose.

JF> Please post the address for Long Ygyde again, as I
JF> don't have it anymore.

It is described at the end of my main Ygyde file:
http://www.medianet.pl/~andrew/ygyde/ygyde.htm

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