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From: brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson)
Subject: Re: Naturalismo e schematicismo, un problema in linguas auxiliar
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Most IALs are neither purely schematic nor purely naturalistic. There's
a continuum. Esperanto is much more schematic than Interlingua, with
Novial somewhere in the middle. (My preference is somewhere a slight bit
more schematic than Novial, but I think Phil Hunt's Eurolang, as I judge
it, is slightly LESS schematic than Novial. The distance between us is
rather small. In the mailing-list group I'm in, we've added a bit more
schematicity to Novial, bringing it pretty close to my ideal. But I think
Eurolang is well within the limits of what I consider a good candidate.)

I can't imagine an a priori but naturalistic language, so there are really
three canonical types: a priori, a posteriori schematic, and a priori
naturalistic. But just as the isolating/agglutinative/amalgamating distinction
is useful only as a rough categorization, so is this. Chinese is essentially
purely isolating, but pure examples of the other are hard to come by. And
there are purely a priori languages, but even E-o cannot be considered
totally schematic, and most Interlingua advocates insist that there are
schematic elements in their favorite.

                                Bruce R. Gilson
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