[conlang_learners] IE vs non IE

[Jim Henry]

2009/6/14 Olivier Simon <cafaristeir at yahoo.com>:

> Maybe, we should ask ourselves the question of knowing which kind of auxlang
> we want before going forward.

You seem to be assuming that we'll pick an auxlang rather than an
artlang or engelang.   It's starting to look possible if not likely
that we'll split into two groups, one seeking a consensus on what
auxlang to learn, and another looking for an interesting artlang to
learn; but it's not certain yet.

> Do we tend rather in the direction of natural
> looking languages, for international communication, or something
> aprioristic, which is a like a game for the brain ?

I've said all I care to about this in posts to the AUXLANG list of 3-4
years ago, and to the worldlangs list last year.  (However, since the
worldlangs list seems to have disappeared along with its archives
(does anyone know why?) I should probably find those messages in my
own email archives and clean them up as a coherent essay for my
website.)   Last September I offered to learn any worldlang if at
least two other people (other than said worldlang's creator) agreed to
learn it along with me; nobody took me up on my offer, and most of
those who responded seemed to think that most if not all of the extant
worldlangs were too incomplete and in flux to be learnable and usable
as yet.   At this point and for this project I would strongly prefer
an artlang or engelang to an auxlang, but I would still rank any
reasonably complete worldlang higher than "No Award" (in Hugo Award
voting terminology).

-- 
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/