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After much discussion and dealing and wheeling, One World, One Voice has made a decision.
Drum roll please…
The winning auxiliary language IS…
INTERLINGUA
OWOV has decided to throw its weight behind Interlingua, as the best possible compromise. From now on, everything we do will benefit the promotion of Interlingua as the auxiliary language of choice.
Thank you.
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As always, much is being made about the fact that our project arrived at Ido and Interlingua as a proposed auxiliary langauge, and not something else.
People are having intense discussions about this, and some even stated that they refuse to join One World, One Voice for the simple fact that they like another language.
These people are missing the point. Continue reading ‘Why Ido and Interlingua, and Why Not Some Other Language?’ »
I have been reading some of the discussion that’s going on about “One World, One Voice” in usegroups like “auxlang”.
Evidently, people are curious as to how we arrived at our “subjective criteria” and they are offering their own opinions on the matter.
Well, once again we have to use Esperanto as an example.
If you ask someone who is not involved with Esperanto (or do some serious searching on the internet, or show an Esperanto text or audio recording to a random group of people) you’ll find that most of them are not all that enthusiastic about it. They say it sounds weird, or that it sounds harsh, or that it doesn’t sound pleasant, or… or… or. Continue reading ‘What is Subjective?’ »
Some people are wondering why we didn’t choose a more “politically neutral” language, such as Loglan or Lojban.
To answer that question, we must define what “politically neutral” means.
Politically neutral supposed to mean that something is free of political bias. However, there is no real way of measuring such criteria, because it falls into the realm of subjective factors. After all, a Chinese or Japanese person may not object to a Euro-centric auxlang, because personally they don’t have anything against the concept. Continue reading ‘On the question of Loglan and Lojban…’ »
Generally speaking, English is the universal language on the Internet, but it has no official status, and it will never have. The reasons for the position of English are the imperialism and economical and political importance of English-speaking countries. Linguistically, English is extremely unsuitable for international communication, and the actual wide use of English tends to polarize the world into Internet users and Internet illiterates.
The position of English can only be altered by major world-scale political and economical changes, such as increasing importance of the European Union or a coalition between Japan and China. Such powers might wish and be able to promote a language other than English, possibly a constructed language, for international communication.
Alternatively, or in addition to this, the technology of machine translation may allow people to use their own language in international communication. Continue reading ‘English - the Universal Language on the Internet?’ »