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Re: [romconlang] Re: Hi everybody



--- On Sun, 7/20/08, rw123472 <rw123472@hidden.email> wrote:

> Thank you for responding, your opinion is very valued. How
> do you think Romana could be improved? 

I didn't say it needed improving. That's a question you might ask on Auxlang. They're interested in "improving" auxlangs.

> When i write in Romana i can hold a
> decent conversation with a Spanish, Portuguese or Italian
> speaker.

Those are the three languages Romana most closely resembles. Italian especially. One can do the same with LFN or Interlingua or Europanto.

> It's funny because my Romana skills are very basic but
> still useful.

It does have the advantage of retaining some verbal conjugation. Most auxlangs strip away all the endings. As a bridge language, that could be useful.

> Romana was developed by a native Romanian speaker, Dan
> Tohatan. I'm
> always open to adjustments, is it possible for you to
> provide me with some tips?

Well, if it fits Dan's design principles -- and we don't even know what they are!; is this supposed to be an artlang, made for the joy of creating a new Romance language; is it supposed to be some kind of alt-hist language (see Brithenig); is it supposed to be an IAL of some sort -- then I think it's fine. I didn't see anything (apart from your choice of imperium) that strikes me as particularly needful of change.

I'd like to see more of the language, but Dan's site gave my Macafee alert system a red-screen warning last night, so I never looked any closer at the grammar. So long as his site causes my anti-virus programme to alert, I won't be looking at it.

Padraic