The final goal of the EuroPidgin Group is to establish a comunity of people speaking EuroPidgin. The name, EuroPidgin, is temporary. It is simply a new name...
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fasilinguo
Sep 9, 2002 11:50 pm
Salutos ba totos. Aki, mio eskriban via la tiniko, planlinguo de orijino romanoida, ma sempre kambiabla, tre simila ta la lingufrankonoviko. La tiniko haban...
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europidgin
Sep 10, 2002 7:55 am
Thanks for the introduction to Tinico. I guess that Tinico is a nice language. But the grammar seems to be quite complicated. However, this group is not for...
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europidgin
Sep 10, 2002 9:09 am
The starting point for discussions here in this group is Lingua Franca Nova. It is fine to suggest that features from another language are put to work in...
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Paul Bartlett
bartlett22183
Sep 11, 2002 7:25 pm
... romanoida, ma ... [...] ... Javiero ... I have just joined the Europidgin mailing list to see what it is all about. (I have had some interest in Lingua...
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Viktoro
vixcafe
Sep 11, 2002 8:33 pm
I have looked briefly at the website for EuroPidgin. Two initial things come to mind: (1) I think "K" is better than "C" as a phonemic representation of /k/. ...
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europidgin
Sep 11, 2002 8:45 pm
Welcome to the group Paul Bartlett and thanks for the warning. Well, I believe in innocence until proven guilty so Alexandre Xavier Casanova Domingo is welcome...
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europidgin
Sep 11, 2002 9:15 pm
Hi Viktoro or should I say kumusta ka;-) Thanks for the first comments and suggestions to EuroPidgin. I really appreciate it. ... Well, you are right so far...
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George Boeree
cgboeree
Sep 11, 2002 9:22 pm
Hello, Viktoro! There is always a degree to which one feels attached to something you took many years to build, but I have determined to "let my baby go" in ...
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europidgin
Sep 11, 2002 9:35 pm
I like to give a special welcome to George Boeree. I'm really honoured that you, the creator of Lingua Franca Nova, joined this group. Thanks a lot. I look...
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jjbowks
Sep 12, 2002 3:01 am
Congratulationes Bjorg, in crear iste nove lista pro un auxilingua basate in radices romanic, basate in grande parte in le vocabulario international del Latino...
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jjbowks
Sep 12, 2002 3:11 am
Salute, It may be good to equate the two into one sound. That is one can spell things with "K" or "C" according to preference, while the pronunciation remains...
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jjbowks
Sep 12, 2002 3:14 am
... seems ... also here make wellknown words harder to recognize. ... It would be good to have only one pattern for conjugating verbs, but if the pattern...
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jjbowks
Sep 12, 2002 3:26 am
Hey George! Good to hear from you again! I very much agree with the things you've said in response to Viktoro. I agree wholeheartedly that the k vs. c...
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jjbowks
Sep 12, 2002 3:28 am
Uops, Io debeva dicer Bjorn e non Bjorg. Mi error. Ma un altere vice, multe gratias in crear iste lista. Con salutes amical, Jay B. ... comunity ... my...
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europidgin
Sep 12, 2002 6:36 am
I'm almost ecstatic to see how fast people join this group. Not bad after only three days. Please help to make the group growing. Invite your friends to join...
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James Chandler
idojc
Sep 12, 2002 9:54 am
I was intrigued by the name 'europidgin', so I decided to join. However, I think that what we need is not so much a euro pidgin as a euro creole. For some...
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James Chandler
idojc
Sep 12, 2002 10:05 am
I would like to bring to attention of this list the IAL Basis Project, which is now nearing completion on the Auxlang-Dialog list ...
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fasilinguo
Sep 12, 2002 10:07 am
Hi you all. This long message contains several issues, rather isolate ones; so I'll divide the issues now. First question. This question is, by far, the less...
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James Chandler
idojc
Sep 12, 2002 10:11 am
Some creoles have a general locative preposition 'na' (the form of which is of Port. origin). Meanwhile, Esp/Ido/Nov share a general preposition 'je/ye' /je/....
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Viktoro
vixcafe
Sep 12, 2002 7:44 pm
... << Your second idea is perhaps based on a misunderstanding: The ending for infinitives (not for verbs in general) is -r, and not - ar, -er, or -ir. >> ...
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Viktoro
vixcafe
Sep 12, 2002 8:03 pm
... Also, what might help is some knowledge about Chavacano (Chabacano), a creole based on Spanish, spoken in the Philippines. Haitian Creole, based on...
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George Boeree
cgboeree
Sep 12, 2002 8:08 pm
Hi, all. So many emails! I feel like I suddenly got a lot of friends! Here is a lengthy collection of comments in response to several of your comments: Paul: I...
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George Boeree
cgboeree
Sep 12, 2002 8:14 pm
Esr is awfully hard to say! :) George ... wrote: << Your second idea is perhaps based on a misunderstanding: The ending for infinitives (not for verbs in...
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europidgin
Sep 12, 2002 9:07 pm
... I think that it would make sense to create both a "pidgin", a "creole", and a "full" language. The "pidgin" as a first step with very simple grammar and a...
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europidgin
Sep 12, 2002 9:52 pm
Hi Alexandre ... I agree very much. I think that it would be a very good idea if people as soon as possible start to write in whatever Romance IAL they prefer ...
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europidgin
Sep 12, 2002 10:30 pm
Different people different difficulties I know. But I live in a family where the members have been forced to change from one language to another for their...
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kevinbsmith
Sep 13, 2002 1:10 am
Greetings all. My primary IAL background is with Glosa, and I prefer isolating structure over conjugations. I support using Romance roots as a starting point,...
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europidgin
Sep 13, 2002 4:38 am
Hi Kevin, ... I agree! Let us follow the KISS principle. You know: Keep It Simple Stupid ;-) ... As a starting point I believe that something like 5-600 root...
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kevinbsmith
Sep 13, 2002 5:29 am
... Hooray! ... I believe it can, and should, evolve from real use. ... I haven't learned enough about the differences between these. I hope you are correct....
