[Wikipedia-l] Europanto

Tue Apr 11 02:25:54 UTC 2006

Haha. I love that term -- linguistic anarchy :D

On 4/10/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The point is, Europanto is not a language in the narrow definition of the
> word.
>
> Can it be used for communication? Yes. But does it have a more or less
> codified set of rules and words that are used to speak it? No. It's
> basically linguistic anarchy.
>
> Mark
>
> On 10/04/06, europanto <europanto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, joke language or not, it is a  language. Its grammar is a set of
> all
> > european language grammars.
> > Why doesn't it have a unique grammar ?
> > Because there's no common grammar among all european languages, so why
> > choose one
> > instead of another. You just adapt it to the vocabulary you use locally
> in
> > your sentence ( for example ).
> > It has cultural and historical background.
> > Anyway, I'm not here to defend Europanto 'till I die.
> > Or you're a language purist and you'll never admit it as a language, or
> > you're not that narrow-minded and you see what's the point of it,
> > or ... you were kind of seduced and even if you're not a linguist, you
> > decide to support that "way of thinking".
> >
> > By the way I must admit that I won't kill myself if there isn't a
> europanto
> > wikipedia ;o)
> >
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