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Subject: Re: Which language is easier to learn?
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:33:14 GMT
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Piorokrat wrote:
>Uzytkownik "Cellus Purfluxius" <Jacek@nospam.com> napisal w wiadomosci
>news:3F21463B.6070502@nospam.com...
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>>Piorokrat wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Euroclones are boring, hard to learn for those who
>>>>do not speak European languages, and they have plenty
>>>>of warts.
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>>>>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.
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>>>> RH> A 2-letter prefix is no more complex than a 1-letter prefix
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>>>>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...
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>>>>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.
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>>>> 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"
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>>>>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
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>>>Ipo ibu ydezu ine ufoli? Yta-odysesi?
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>>Numai neuki mozhe-mozhe predlozhe neitrali miri jezik!
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>>Bhafa
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>>Cellus P.
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>Mozhe biti on jezyk velmi neitralni.
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>Lhiut'n,
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Neitraluma e relativi stvor.
Lsen!
Cellus P.
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