Franz Sledge skrev:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:03:08 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>   
>> ... the ability to communicate with others around the world
>> is a great benefit.  This group is a good example.  It's not very
>> large, and is scattered geographically.  I doubt any of us could
>> find this type of forum if we didn't have the means to communicate
>> with others outside or localities.
>>     
>
> And we are doing this communication, with people around the world, *in* the
> world auxiliary language!
>
> And when people publish designs for proposed auxiliary languages, they most
> often publish them IN ENGLISH so everybody can read them. But anyone who can
> ready English *already* has command of an auxiliary language and doesn't
> need the new one.
>
>   
I'm trying to imagine that I had not learnt Esperanto as a beginning 
teen-ager and not Interlingua when I was about 30 and Occi now when I am 
nearing my 70's!

If you get accustomed to auxilanguages perhaps that's an infection which 
will be chronical. Perhaps with some additional energy I might be able 
to write much more understandable and better English, but question is if 
it is worth while. The auxiliary language that I have used give me a 
kind of freedom that English doesn't. It is good in the sense that it 
doesn't waste a lot of energy, but of course you might reach much more 
people using english. On the other hand the auxiliary languages give you 
more freedom, even if your audience will be limited, even if you use a 
transparent language like Interlingua or Occidental.

I have said this before - we already have some kind of Euro-English 
spoken on the continent. This language has basically British consonant 
and American vowels.
And the best assault on that language would be that some self assigned 
expert will tell the Continentals how to use English, and beware us from 
Simplified Englishes! We can manage the simplification ourselves without 
any help from some friends.

It is quite possible that the fact that there are native speakers of 
English will mean that the language will gain fresh blood and kept nice 
and steady in the right course. Mi impression is that Latin never could 
become the folk language, as it was cultivated by Those-Who-Knew-Best.

What is stopping the auxiliary languages? They are surprizingly 
complicated. Partly that depends how they are presented. Then there is a 
not to welcomming attitude among their supporters. I think every 
supporter of an auxilanguage will have to be as inclusive as possible. 
"My language is fantastic, try it!"-like.

Kjell R