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--- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote:
> Katab Padraic Brown:
>
> | --- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote:
> |
> | > A Romance based conlang cannot be an
> | > "interlanguage".
> |
> | Disagree. Eurocentric it may be, and
> | Romanocentric it certainly is, but it can
> | certainly still be an "interlanguage" -- a
> true
> | Lingua Franca. That is, an interlanguage for
> best
> | use by Romance speakers (with the possible
> | exception of Romanians).
>
> Ah, now I see. I totally missed this aspect. I
> read "interlanguage" as a
> "world-wide international auxiliary language".
That's the usual meaning of IAL, as I understand
the term, but "interlanguage" all by itself can
be quite limited in nature.
> I don't think such thing can
> happen at the moment because of many blocking
> extralinguistic factors, even
> though I personally has some criteria of my own
> wrt it. But an
> "Interromance"? Yes, it's highly possible to
> create a project for this
> purpose. Much more difficult to introduce,
> though.
It certainly has good company. For some strange
reason, people simply resist the whole idea of
planned languages.
> BTW, if I were creating an "Interromance" (once
> I indeed had an idea to
> start a "Mesoromanica" project), I would have
> preserved most of the
> idiosyncrasies the natural Romance langs have
> in common.
I wouldn't disagree with that design principle,
though I should hope that such preservation is
not overdone. All the Romance languages retain a
host of personal inflexion in the verbs. That is
something that could probably be dispensed with
for simplicity sake. Yet I think it's I-a that
retains a number distinction between es and son.
That sort of thing, if done sparingly, is not a
bad idea.
Cheers,
Padraic
> | Padraic
>
> Respects,
> -- Yitzik
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