[Jay Bowks ha scripte]
Gode's dream was to
extract the Standard Average European out of the Western tongues. This
he accomplished with the IED (Interlingua English Dictionary) and the
Grammar (Interlingua: a grammar of the International language).

[Kapitano Eglefino ha scripte]
   The purpose of Interlingua was that it be used as an international
SCIENTIFIC, WRITTEN language, that is, that it be used only
for scientific articles.
   Interlingua was designed as a primarily READ language, with only a
small team of highly skilled, highly paid, romance polyglot
scientists actually producing the texts.

[Ensjo scribe]
Io non sape le pensamentos o sentimentos del creatores de Interlingua.
Cata persona lo usa como vole. Anque si (even if) illo ha essite
disveloppate como un lingua SCRIPTE, io succede tranquilemente PARLAR
Interlingua, quasi como io parla mi portugese. E on non necessita esser
un "scientista polyglota altemente habilitose e altemente pagate" pro
scriber in illo. A me es sufficiente le viventia del portugese.

"Ah, solo le parlantes de linguas neolatin (romance) usara correctemente
Interlingua." Absolutemente no! In le lista INTERLNG il ha svedeses,
poloneses, germanos, statouniteses, etc., totes con un optime maestria
del lingua. Il es ver que le parlantes de linguas neolatin habe multo
major facilitate. Ma rememora que mesmo le mundialmente diffundite
anglese habe tamben certe peculiaritates grammatical que pauc personas
succede apprender.

Assi, ANQUE SI Interlingua ha essite disveloppate pro ille propositos
(purposes) que tu cita.... le producto final habe characteristicas que
transcende ille propositos.

Illo es parlabile, etc. E como un exemplo, Interlingua ha essite un
optime introduction pro parlantes de linguas non-neolatin al linguas
neolatin.

[Jay]
A lot of Interlinguists and men
of renoun of earlier decades put a lot of effort into IALA's
project.  Its simplicity and naturalness is quite exemplary...

Io crede que isto es un grande parte de su successo, nonne?

[Kapitano]
Hmmm. And probably many more people regard it as full of
'naturalistic' irregularities, complexities, and ambiguities.

[Ensjo]
Como io ha dicte, anglese tamben habe iste cosas, e non obstante le
personas lo usa.

[Jay]
Interlingua is able to serve as a world auxiliary, I feel,

[Kapitano]
There seems to be a movement away from Gode and Gopsill's
original beliefs about the impossibility of a general purpose
interlanguage.

My native language is English, I am learning Esperanto, and I
have smatterings of Romance and Germanic vocabulary. I find
Interlingua texts easier to 'guess at' than Esperanto texts (and
Eurolang easier than both). However, I can write a little in
Esperanto, and not at all in Interlingua.
[Tamen, mi povas skribi ete en Esperanto, sed neniome en
Interlingua.]

[Ensjo]
:^) Si, le formation de parolas e phrases es un joco interessante in
Esperanto. Io appreciava isto. Ma io pensa que tu non ha examinate le
grammatica de Interlingua con le mesme attention que tu dedicava a
Esperanto. Con tu "smatterings" de linguas romance, isto esserea un
travalio simplicissime!

[Kapitano]
There is an excellent little book:

          Dalton, Ric
          The anatomy of a failure : Interlingua analysed
          Leeds: Publishers Betaland House, 1992 (81 p.)

The entire text is somewhere on the Net, probably under the
FLEFO forum of COMPUSERVE. Perhaps someone here
knows exactly where?

[Ensjo]
Oh, si, isto me interessa. Io ha justo cercate le titulo in AltaVista,
ma io incontrava nihil.
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