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Taking them as romlangs, obviously Interlingua wins; after all, it was the only one actually intended to be a romlang! As an auxlang, the mechanical method used to produce the vocabulary produces serious problems, as in the dictionary entries concurrentia. II.2. union in action. III. competition, rivalry. iride. 1. iris; 2. rainbow iris. 1. iris; 2. rainbow nove¹. nine nove². new As for Interlingua (aka Occidental), it looks a mess to me. The insistence on borrowing words in their original spelling produces odd results: why Eng. 'trolley' rather than Fr. 'trollie'?. The use of free stress is worse: 'Ãnscrit' vs 'inscrit'. As an auxlang, I'd vote for Ido, but I think André Martinet got it right when he wrote 'The common mistake of nearly all language-makers is to assume a demand where there is practically none.' --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Capsicum" <thomas@...> wrote: > > Yesterday I read the article on Wikipedia about mouflons in Interlingua and was supprised how well I understand it. I tried the other two before but I don't remember how much I understood. >