Si. Sape vos qui cita Bernasconi in iste citation ab "Interlingua au
Esperanto"? Qui ex interlinguistas o occidentalistas? Qui es le
"representative importante de Neo-Romanticismo"?

Artemio.


>From: Chris Burd <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "INTERLNG:  Discussiones in Interlingua"
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Mea culpa! (mi excusas)
>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:01:39 -0500
>
>Tu cita Edo Bernasconi, ex su "Interlingua au Esperanto". Un polemista
>anti-
>interlinguan ha postate un traduction anglese de duo capitulos in le rete.
>
>Io ha justo scribite un message su plus longe message re isto, ma illo pare
>haber perdite se en route. In breve, Bernasconi es tendentiose e errorose e
>non merita ulle confidentia. On debe scriber un plus detalliate analyse, ma
>isto exige tempore. Crede me que ni de Wahl, ni altere occidentalistas
>importante esseva o es racistas.
>
>Amicalmente,
>
>Chris
>
>------------------
>
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:56:31 YEKT, A. Artorius Arius Sarmaticus
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> >"The Neo-Romantic school of language planning asserts that the main tool
>of
> >civilization is language. The most widespread civilization of our era is
> >Western civilization. This civilization is linked to race: "This
>culture,"
> >an important representative of Neo- Romanticism claims, "is felt to be a
> >typical expression of the culture of the white races." According to the
>same
> >author, this civilization, becoming ever more uniform, is ever more in
>need
> >of a common language, one that must be suitable to its nature. "Today,"
>he
> >asserts, "because our culture is based on the historical foundations of
> >Rome, it is clear that the bases of the (international) language must be
>the
> >same Latin foundations." (1) This is why, according to the
>representatives
> >of the Neo-Romance school, "modern interlinguistics is an applied science
> >[which] works out elements which cannot be changed at pleasure, because
>they
> >have been utilized for centuries; this means that this science must use
>the
> >words of the international cultural vocabulary, common to all languages
>of
> >culture." (2) The well-known statement by the famous Danish linguist Otto
> >Jespersen, according to whom "the best international languages is the
> >easiest language for the greatest number of people," must be interpreted
> >according to what its author himself claims, that "it concerns only
> >Europeans or the inhabitants of other parts of the globe who are either
>of
> >European origin or possess a civilization based on European civilization
> >itself." (3)
> >For this reason, the structure of a planned language must be based on the
> >structure of the Western European languages, and may contain nothing
> >invented. "

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