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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:16:25 -0600
From: Christopher ZERVIC <zervic@usa.net>
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Phil Hunt wrote:
> But don't English French and Italian collectively carry more weight than
> Spanish and German? What weightings do you use for New Novial? (Eurolang
> uses the number of speakers of these languages inside the EU).

Could you explain in a little more detail this weighting system? I may have 
missed it if you have already explained it (perhaps this would be a good 
idea for your Eurolang page). Immediatley Im struck with the idea that if 
that were the case, the German word/morpheme would always be used, since 
the greatest number of native speakers of an EU language is German. 

This would also mean recalculating and rebuilding Eurolang every time a new 
member nation was added...and EL therefore whould consider putting in more 
Scandanavian elements and have a reserve of slavic elements on standby... 
plus a cyrillic rendering or the addition of one or more cyrillic letters 
may be a mathematical necessity.
-- 
Christopher M. A. ZERVIC               E S P E R A N T O
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Usono       lingvo de cxampionoj
