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<DIV>The Worldlang list was suppressed by its creator when he got upset by the religious based opinions of one Libyan colleague...</DIV>
<DIV>Since then, Jens Wilkinson (the inventor of Neo Patwa) has opened a new group : "Worldlanglist": <A href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/worldlanglist/">http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/worldlanglist/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Sorry I did not remember your offer (in September, I still had a job, and a very hard one...). I later a opened a group to give Sambahsa on-line lessons: </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://groups.google.com/group/sambahsa-mundialect">http://groups.google.com/group/sambahsa-mundialect</A></DIV>
<DIV>Dave McLeod followed them and D.Ivanov did the same at the beginning (but he could not go further, as he is very busy due to his work)</DIV>
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<DIV>Olivier</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/">http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/</A> </DIV>
<DIV> <BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 6/14/09, Jim Henry <I><jimhenry1973@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] IE vs non IE<BR>To: conlang_learners@conlang.org<BR>Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009, 6:27 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>2009/6/14 Olivier Simon <<A href="http://us.mc574.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=cafaristeir@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:cafaristeir@yahoo.com">cafaristeir@yahoo.com</A>>:<BR><BR>> Maybe, we should ask ourselves the question of knowing which kind of auxlang<BR>> we want before going forward.<BR><BR>You seem to be assuming that we'll pick an auxlang rather than an<BR>artlang or engelang. It's starting to look possible if not likely<BR>that we'll split into two groups, one seeking a consensus on what<BR>auxlang to learn, and another looking for an interesting artlang to<BR>learn; but it's not certain yet.<BR><BR>> Do we tend rather in the direction of natural<BR>> looking languages, for international communication, or something<BR>> aprioristic, which is a like a game for the brain ?<BR><BR>I've said all I care to about this in posts to the AUXLANG list of 3-4<BR>years ago, and to the worldlangs list
last year. (However, since the<BR>worldlangs list seems to have disappeared along with its archives<BR>(does anyone know why?) I should probably find those messages in my<BR>own email archives and clean them up as a coherent essay for my<BR>website.) Last September I offered to learn any worldlang if at<BR>least two other people (other than said worldlang's creator) agreed to<BR>learn it along with me; nobody took me up on my offer, and most of<BR>those who responded seemed to think that most if not all of the extant<BR>worldlangs were too incomplete and in flux to be learnable and usable<BR>as yet. At this point and for this project I would strongly prefer<BR>an artlang or engelang to an auxlang, but I would still rank any<BR>reasonably complete worldlang higher than "No Award" (in Hugo Award<BR>voting terminology).<BR><BR>-- <BR>Jim Henry<BR><A href="http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/"
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