Paul Bartlett <bartlett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:Pine.NEB.4.64.0711082211220.12395@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I announced this a long time ago on the AUXLANG list, but some here may
> not be aware of it. In 1907 in the USA, Stephen Chase Houghton
> published "The Master Language" (an admittedly deplorable name), which
> was a proposed international auxiliary language based squarely on
> Latin. I have a photocopy of the book, and I thought it might be of
> some interest to others, so I HTML-ized the entire thing (very
> tediously) and put it on some webspace I have access to:
>
> http://www.panix.com/~bartlett/master.html
>
> Unlike some projects, Master has several langthy specimen texts.
>
> I thought that it could use a little cleaning up, so primnarily as an
> amusement I modified Master into latinvlo (note the lowercase) at:
>
> http://www.panix.com/~bartlett/latinvlo.html
>
> I have no illusions about the prospects of either as IALs that are
> going to go anywhere.
>
Fun. Thanks for posting that.
I often wonder about Latin based planned languages. They're interesting,
in that they're intelligible somewhat to most people. On the other hand,
if one is going to go to the trouble, he ought to simply advocate
learning Classical Latin as it is.
It's not a difficult language to learn, aside from conjugations and
declensions. English speakers can read and discern a lot of it from
scratch. There's a large (though not extensive -- Latin authors liked to
write in Greek) body of literature that exists already. Ovid is a great
choice for students.
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