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Subject: Re: Which language is easier to learn?
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:01:15 GMT
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Piorokrat wrote:
>Uzytkownik "Andrew Nowicki" <andrew@nospam.com> napisal w wiadomosci
>news:3F211D55.C3ED6754@nospam.com...
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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.
>>
>>============================================================
>>
>>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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>>
>>http://www.medianet.pl/~andrew/ygyde/ygyde.htm
>>
>>
>
>Ipo ibu ydezu ine ufoli? Yta-odysesi?
>
Numai neuki mozhe-mozhe predlozhe neitrali miri jezik!
Bhafa
Cellus P.
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