#auxlang

[liminalmalti]

cases do NOT mean “more complicated grammar” they often make word order more flexible, not less

[dedalvs]

More recent posterior auxlangs like Lidepla aim to borrow from non-European sources like Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi - which can make them somewhat unintelligible , although Lidepla is still 80% Western by vocab and uses non-WE words for common words like know “Jan”, want “Yao”. Would something like a space Creole work on similar lines?

Creating a space creole is a different project from creating an auxlang. Presumably that would be a project done for fun, and would be created in a way that a creole would be created, which is not at all the same thing as created an auxlang.

Regarding auxlang creation (and I really can't put this strongly enough), a new auxlang created with an a posteriori vocabulary is an immediate and abject failure upon conception.

[altaicistbowser]

What's your favorite thing about interlinguistics, Altaicist Bowser?

To be totally honest, the nerve and absolute batshittery of early auxlangers. The chaos of, for example, putting 46 noun classes in a language meant to be spoken by the majority of the world.

This actually happened, by the way. Veltparl, 1896:

I have a million other examples of this kind of lunacy.

My other favorite thing about it is that a single international auxiliary language shared by a majority of the world's population ISN'T feasible, and yet, for every 19th century conlanger who acknowledged that, there was another who genuinely believed in that vision. There were people who really thought Volapük was going to be a major world language by the 1900s. Think about that.

[amikema-steleto]

Mi miras ĉu ĉi tio okazas al aliaj esperantistoj, precipe se oni ankaŭ lernas aliajn lingvojn: Foje mia intereso por nia internacia lingvo iĝas...dorma(?)... Kaj poste mia pasio bruliĝas denove. Mi silentas en Esperantujo kaj poste mi partoprenas multe. Ĉu iuj aliaj spertas tion?😅

[lemonthepotato]

Solresol has seemingly solved the ‘is water wet?’ dilemma entirely by making them the same word. Gg, Sudre.

[certified-linguistics-moment]

russian speaker here. i understood like 98% because the lexicon seems nearly identical to russian (is it a russocentric conlang, i wonder? or are slavic languages just not as different as i expected). in terms of pronunciation, it reminds me of how ukrainian sounds.

slavic cousins please tell me how much you understand!

[crescentaureola]

ja dumaju že ljudi odgovorni za jezyk novolatinsky dolžen izdělati collab s spoločnostju medžuslovjanskom i stvoriti materialy učeče se vzajemno. ja byh togo velmi htěla

[latinocomuno]

Word of the day - Corasóno

/ko.ra.'so.no/ - Masculine noun

Word in the source langs:

Portuguese: Coração

Spanish: Corazon

French: Cœur

Italian: Cuore

Romanian: Inima