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
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:56:31 YEKT, A. Artorius Arius Sarmaticus
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>"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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