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non omne del participantes de INTERLNG lo ha vidite.  Apparentemente
secundo le aviso del scriptor, advocatos de altere linguas auxiliar
deberea non guastar lor effortios.

Paul Bartlett

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Newsgroups: alt.language.artificial
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Date: 21 Jul 2006 10:14:05 -0700
Subject: Re: The most useful artificial language.


Aegimius kirjoitti:

> I am very new to the field of artificial languages. I would like to
> learn an artificial language, but do not know where to start. I was
> just wondering, what artificial language(s) would be best for:

[...]

>
> 2) Bridging the gap between English and other languages.
>
> 3) Helps to diagnose and/or ameliorate "learning disabilities", as well
> as help pin point certain learning pecularities, or learning style.
>
> 4) Help a person acquire a "deeper" understanding of foreign languages,
> and perhaps even help a person learn foreign languages or learn just
> about anything more efficiently.

I don't have an opinion regarding the first point, but for the other
three points I recommend Esperanto. I am no Esperantist and certainly
not fluent in the language. I am speaking as a sociolinguist.

Esperanto has a huge literature both original and translated, and there
are literatures most accessible in Esperanto translations (rather than
English). Esperanto incorporates features of several major European
languages in its grammar, and will make it easier for you to learn to
learn (sic) foreign languages.

Of course, anti-Esperantists will be offended by this. To them I can
only answer, that while it could be possible to design better
international auxiliary languages, the sociolinguistic fact is, that
the slot has already been filled by Esperanto. If you want to promote
an artificial auxiliary language as a global lingua franca, then there
is no realistic alternative to Esperanto.

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