Hey, Klingon may be nerdy and funky, and it may have less than 1
fully-competent native speakers (to be fair, there are at least 2
native speakers, but neither of them were raised entirely in Klingon
because their parents gave up after realising belatedly that it lacks
translations for words necessary to a rich and enjoyable childhood as
"table" and "joy"), but at least it has a (mostly) constant
vocabulary
and grammar.
According to most of the more complex definitions of "language",
Europanto wouldn't qualify as one -- it does not have a relatively
fixed vocabulary. The source languages aren't even for-sure -- some
people include all European languages, others limit it to German,
English, French, and Spanish, others include various other languages
such as Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish... until they resolve that
issue of way-too-many-synonyms and the myriad linguistic uncertanties,
it's more of a pan-European Wind Up Pidgin (got that phrase from JBR,
who used the phrase "Czech-Italian wind-up pidgin" to describe
Esperanto), but probably even less developed than that -- more of a
jargon or a cant or argot.
Folks, come back when your language has a more stable vocabulary. The
answer will probably still be a resounding "no" until there are native
speakers or a huge huge following...
Sinceremente vosaltres,
Marcos Williamson
On 04/02/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
Since it appears to be possible to generate
Europanto by word-by-word
translation of English into European languages chosen at random on a
word-by-word basis, I'd imagine that it would not be too difficult to
generate a Europanto Wikipedia programmatically, using the English
Wikipedia as source material, and perhaps Wiktionary as the
word-for-word translation dictionary. Throw in link grammars for
fair-to-reasonable part-of-speech tagging...
Und voila! Esta Vikipedio Europantoi - L'encyclopédie fria e gratuita,
mit 950,000 artikelen!
Curiously, my brain processes that as "The fried encyclopedia". So I
guess it's a decent enough joke. As a Wikipedia language, though, it
ranks up there with Klingon.
--Michael Snow
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