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Salute, omnes! J. Chandler's description of Interlingua as a kind of linguistic dinosaur of the Italo/Latino type is most amusing, but I don't think it's very accurate. One should remember that western languages have a lot of words in common, whether one likes it or not. These words come almost exclusively from a common latin/grec source and I-a is mainly a systemation of this immense linguistic corpus with a bare minimum of grammar. To say that I-a is a simplified Italian is, with all due respect Chandler, nonsense. If someone doesn't like I-a it's all right to me. Everyone is entiteled to his opinion. But if someday an artificial language is chosen as an international auxiliary language it will surely be I-a, or a language more or less similar to it - because the international vocabulary is already there, and there's no need to invent a new one... If this language looks more like the Romance than like the Germanic languages that's also because these languages are spoken by more people than the Germanic ones and the importance of these languages increase by each day.. Personally I don't think this will ever happen. I think we in the future will see several dominant languages in different parts of the world - in Northern Europe it will surely be English - but NOT so in Southern Europe or Latin America. Should there in the future be ONE worldwide auxiliary language my bet would be put on Spanish for sure. But learning I-a has a lot of other benefits as well... Sincerely, [log in to unmask]