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1. Jason F. McBrayer

   Curso de #interlingua pro comenciantes anglophone: http://ur1.ca/4p1kg

   Wednesday, 13-Jul-11 19:14:44 UTC from Emacs Identica-mode
   • Martijn Dekker repeated this.
   • Arne Babenhauserheide

     @jfm raeds like simplified spanish to me…

     Wednesday, 13-Jul-11 19:45:45 UTC
   • Jason F. McBrayer Arne Babenhauserheide

     @arnebab Yes, more or less. It's basically generic Romance with English syntax.

     Wednesday, 13-Jul-11 20:02:53 UTC
   • Arne Babenhauserheide

     @jfm So they took a criticism of Esperanto (western centric) and pushed it to the extreme (america-centric)?

     Wednesday, 13-Jul-11 20:48:37 UTC
   • Jason F. McBrayer Arne Babenhauserheide

     @arnebab actually,the methods that were used to create Interlingua are pretty interesting. But it never pretends to be neutral.

     Thursday, 14-Jul-11 01:21:55 UTC
   • Arne Babenhauserheide Esperanto

     @jfm !Esperanto says it’s neutral from any country but not that it is perfectly fair for all speakers: just fairer than any alternative.

     Thursday, 14-Jul-11 01:26:55 UTC
   • Jason F. McBrayer Arne Babenhauserheide

     @arnebab I'd say Toki Pona is much more neutral (both syntactically and phonologically), but intentionally limited in other ways.

     Thursday, 14-Jul-11 13:44:29 UTC
   • Arne Babenhauserheide

     @jfm On Toki Pona I’d agree, yes. But it’s clearly not intended to be used to express exact idaes.

     Thursday, 14-Jul-11 16:57:58 UTC