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 You may be right, but are you right to argue like everybody
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:24:22 -0400, Wei Chang <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:09:49 -0400
>Subject: Re:SERMO
>
>I have looked at the Sermo pages. I am puzzled!!
>It states as its goal to "unite all mankind."
>
>Yet it seems designed only to unite the Italians
>with the Spanish and perhaps bring in a few others.
>(Who might find it more troublesome than pretty,
>for it imitates -- but does so in ways that may jar.)
>Not just Eurocentric but Romocentric.
>
>The rest of the world will be confused by gender,
>special forms of verbs for "we ...", all sorts of odd
>things. If you want a "universal romance language" it
>would make more sence just to compromise on something
>like Catalonian. That does exist and has ready patterns.
>
>Sermo hopes to be easier, but I would rather simply
>spend the time to learn Spanish or Italian. Either
>would in real world be easier to learn than this
>Sermo, since there are many writings and many Sp &
>It speakers to learn from and with. Knowing either
>would have its rewards.
>
>In theory Sermo is much easyer than English, but in
>practice MUCH harder !! If a Chinese or Indonesian
>wants to read English then he can go to most of the things
>on the Internet -- full books, all types of things,
>all there as samples. If he wants to learn to speak it,
>that is more easy to do by going to Hongkong or Singapore
>-- or thousands of places where he could absorb it. Same
>with Bengali, Africans, Russians, people everwhere.
>
>So in reality Sermo would be much harder to learn for 95%
>of people than is Spanish or Italian or even Engish !!(oh
>so bad-spelled but easier to write than Japanese!).
>
>Sorry to be so pessamistic about all your big effort but
>this is my impression!
>
>
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> "." CHANG Wei
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