Uzytkownik "Andrew Nowicki" <andrew@nospam.com> napisal w wiadomosci
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> Andrew Nowicki wrote:
> AN> The most important feature of an international
> AN> auxiliary language is simplicity.
>
> Rick Harrison wrote:
> RH> Well, I disagree... I think the most important
> RH> feature would be some reason, some incentive that
> RH> would persuade someone other than language
> RH> nuts and utopian idealists to learn it.
>
> Euroclones are boring, hard to learn for those who
> do not speak European languages, and they have plenty
> of warts.
>
> The perfect IAL must have a unique feature that makes
> it fun to work with it. Ygyde has such a feature - it
> is fun to coin new compound words in Ygyde.
>
> RH> A 2-letter prefix is no more complex than a 1-letter prefix
>
> If this is true, than a 3-letter prefix is no more
> complex that the 2-letter prefix, which is no more
> complex than the 1-letter prefix...
>
> By the way, Ygyde has one-letter prefixes and no affixes.
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> Jacques Guy wrote:
> JG> Exactly right. There is even worse: "can" and "can't"
> JG> in some varieties of American English.
>
> JG> This is a reason why I think that Indonesian is difficult:
> JG> many words differ by only one letter. Binatang "insect",
> JG> bintang "star", merah "red", marah "angry", and so on.
>
> Good IAL is free of homonyms and all its words sound
> differently. Some 3 letter long Ygyde words differ by
> one letter only. Longer words differ by more than one letter
> except related adjective-noun-verb words. For example:
>
> analytical = emydu = "adjective separation knowledge"
> analysis = omydu = "noun separation knowledge"
> to analyze = imydu = "verb separation knowledge"
>
> It is possible to make Ygyde-like language which does not
> have words differing by one letter only. Words of this
> language would be on average longer than Ygyde words.
> English gets away with homonyms, so I guess that the one
> letter only difference is not a big deal.
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