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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: EuroLang - interesa, sed ne multe da novo en g^i
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In article <D6MvyA.Cxt@freenet.carleton.ca>
           ah514@FreeNet.Carleton.CA "Manuel M Campagna" writes:
> In Article 15483 philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) typed
> recently :
> <<
> Another peculiarity of Eurolang is that it concentrates on writing:
> the written form of an EL word should be as similar as possible to the
> forms in its source languages (even though this can lead to
> differences in pronunciation). Eg:
> 
> English    science
> French     science
> Italian    scienza
> Spanish    ciencia
> 
> EL         science
> Novial     scientie
> E-o        scienco
> >>
> 
> The least thing I'd do is study a language (which is not a sign
> language) that I wouldn't know how to pronounce.

EL isn't like this: the pronunciation of every EL word is rigidly defined
by the spelling. However the pronunciation may well be different from
EL's source languages. EL "science" is pronounced /ski en ke/.

> I personally find that the endings of Esperanto are priceless. It is
> an important drawback of English (and, to a lesser extent, of French)
> that it lacks those, except for "ed" and "ing".

Certainly they help you to ascertain what syntax class a word belongs to,
which can make things easier when learning. OTOH, when I was learning 
French, I rarely had that difficulty, since it is fairly obvious what 
is a verb, and nouns and adjectives usually have articles or prepositions
near them which makes guessing them easy.

EL does have endings for adjectives (-a) and adverbs (-ae). 
 
> <<
> Another advantage of learning EL is that since it is still being
> created, you would be able to influence its development: I am finding
> it useful to go over ideas with other people.
> >>
> 
> You should take a look at those language projects like Ido, Idiom
> Neutral, and other projects that never started because they never
> became finally ready, and people lost interest.

As I understand it, Ido was completed. Don't know about Idiom Neutral
though.

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-- 
Phil Hunt....philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
