Re: internet languages (English rules?) Eng./Int.

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From: Edmund Grimley-Evans
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00

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|>   Interlingua may be a viable choice if you can't decide
|> whether to learn Spanish or Italian, but _speaking_ Interlingua
|> won't bring you much further than broken Spanish or rudimentary
|> Italian. People's true motivation for learning Interlingua is the
|> same as for all other languages, including Esperanto: interest in
|> the community that is defined by that language.

I'm not so sure. Check the weird psychoanalytical chapter in Klaus
Schubert's "Interlinguistics: aspects of the science of planned
languages" (Mouton de Gruyter, 1989) where it goes on about "oral
penises" and things like that. I can imagine that there might be
some attraction to speaking a language that millions of people
can understand (you think), but which almost nobody apart from
you can speak ...

|> > Interlingua is the alternative that I can use when I want to give more
|> > than I take. If others prefere to use Esperanto, be my guest!
|> 
|> Out of listening and speaking to someone, what is giving and what is
|> taking? Well, maybe it means that using Esp'o makes you feel equal
|> with your interlocutors, and you want to feel inferior...

Weirder and weirder! This is getting really quite kinky now ... :-)

Edmundo <etg10@cam.ac.uk>          http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/etg10/

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From: etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans)
Subject: Re: internet languages (English rules?) Eng./Int.
Date: 1996/02/15
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