Hi.

Sorry for writing in English. (Am I breaking any rules?) I still have
not started studying Interlingua. Actually, I think it would not be
that hard to write this message looking up every single word in the
dictionary, but I could not ensure the accurancy of it.

I must confess I was kind of reluctant about Interlingua at first. I
thought it was not fair since neo-latin speakers would be more
benefited of it than others. I can speak some Japanese, so I kind of
understand how hard it can be to them to learn a western language.
But, if you come to think, it is way better to have something
understandable by a wider "audience" at first glance than having a
language made from scratch no one can understand without prior study.

My concern is, however, about slangs, bad words and daily vocabulary.
How could one say something "Cool!", scream "Fuck of*!" or even say
"I'm a High School student" in Interlingua? Then you would say: "Why
would someone want to write about that in Interlingua?". My answer
would be: "If I were to write a blog, a diary, a journal, how would I
write about my reality? Say I did not study enough and know got to
take make up tests? Say I've failed my university entrance tests? How
about saying I'm fed up of something?". IMHO, if I am unable to say
this sort of things, then Interlingua is nothing but a artificial
language made for formal texts. Nothing against it, I was really
excited about it, but I would like to hear from you about ways to
bypass that. Having a defined vocabulary for all that just would not
do it: we have lots of cultural differences, what could be done
without stumbling on this question?

Merry Christmas for you guys!

Thanks in advance,
-Yuji

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