Hello! I'm wandering over to the Interlingua reddit as a bit of a conlang nerd (though sadly not an Interlingua speaker, perhaps one day down the road though!) I'm currently doing research on constructed languages and their use or non use of profanity and obscenity. I think i'ts a pretty important and fascinating topic (certainly one that is not too often studied) as all natural languages have taboo words and they function so interestingly linguistically and socially as compared to other words. My interest in constructed languages and their use of these words is the nature of ConLangs. While natural languages evolve over long periods of time and have no real set intention at their origin, ConLangs are of course created for a specific purpose or purposes by a person or group of people. So the questions can be asked: Does the language we're creating need these naughtier and uglier words in it? Are these really that important for the language we're trying to make?
Some of the earliest critiques of Esperanto, for example, called it out for it's lack of profane and obscene words. It would only take one stubbing their toe to fall back into their native language and relieve some pain. It took the Esperanto community from the 1930's to present day to really push hard for taboo word inclusion. I've tried to find any traces of taboo words in English-Interlingua/Interlingua-English dictionaries and cannot seem to find any. I was really hoping to talk to the Interlingua community on reddit and see if there has ever been any problems or discussions about the inclusion of taboo words in the language. Any literature, links, or thoughts on the subject are incredibly awesome and helpful and I am happy and willing to answer any questions about my research if need be. :) Thanks :D
Damn that was getting dicey. This entire story is so fucked up, these two are taking the fast track to pariahville.
You can repeat the process with Interturkic, Internihonkorean, and Interuralic to get Proto-Altaic (i.e. Uzbek).
Thatโs wrong on so many levels.
I won't be there (I live in Korea) but there are three constructed language conferences going on in Prague starting today. The first is for the Interslavic language which looks like this:
https://www.facebook.com/events/438147800362426/
>KONFERENCIJA CISLa 2019 โ PRAGA 12-14 SEPTEMBER 2019
>Uvaลพimi gosti i dragi prijatelji, ktori uฤestvovali na prฤdลกedลกih konferencijah ili pisali do naลกego ฤasopisa SLOVJANI.info. Imaju za vas tri dobre vฤsti.
>Prva vฤst je, ลพe konferencija o medลพuslovjanskom jezyku v tutom godu bude v Pragฤ od 12-ogo do 14-ogo septembra 2019, i ne bude vezana s festivalom Slovjanskoj kutury, ktory uลพe byl v tradiฤnom majovom datumu na Moravฤ. Konferencija bude naฤinati v 11h v kinu MAT na Karlovom rynku 19 (ฤeลกsky: Karlovo nรกmฤstรญ 19) premijeroju filma Kolorovana Ptica. Kako uลพe znajete, v tutom filmu se koristaje medลพuslovjansky jezyk. Na premijerฤ bude film s anglijskymi podtekstami. Vy vsi jeste srdeฤno prizvani na premijeru s liฤnym uฤestjem direktora i producenta filma gospodina Vรกclava Marhoula. Potom bude konferencija potrvati v nedalekom Domu narodnyh menลกinstv Stoliฤnogo grada Praga v ulicฤ Vocelova 3 blizko stancije metra I.P. Pavlova na liniji C. Proลกu Vas, da byste svoje uฤestije potvrdili e-mailom, zatoลพe nam trฤba planovati ograniฤeny objem malogo kina MAT.
After that comes the Interlingua conference which lasts for a week:
http://www.interlingua.com/conferentia/2019
And at the same time an informal gathering will take place for Occidental (Interlingue), which was very popular in Europe in the 1930s, nearly died and has come back to life. Probably 3-5 people there which has become the norm since the informal gatherings started again in 2014. Here is one of their magazines published in Prague in 1935:
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0m&datum=1935&page=10&size=45
Prague has always been a hotbed for these sorts of new ideas and Interslavic is the newest of the three.
Salve interlinguistos!
Hello, inter-linguists!
Nos vol crea revista in Interlingua quo auctores pote scribe de subjecto vario (philosophia, mathematica, linguisticaโฆ). Illo pote da suo opinio vel describo factos et explica concepto. Idea alio es propone traductione de opere libro.
We want to create a journal in Interlingua where authors could write about various subjects (philosophy, mathematics, linguistics...). They can give their opinion or describe facts and explain concepts. Another idea is to propose the translation of works in the public domain.
https://preview.redd.it/m56822wl3uk31.png?width=2242&format=png&auto=webp&s=482a3e6d0eff17d38a72f5d2c0e59022423150ea
Ergo ab nunc nos es laeto recipe articulos in Discord aut Reddit.
We are therefore happy to receive articles on Discord or Reddit.
Te non debe time fac lapso de lingua: communitate i relege opere omne! Texto ab cento ad mille verbo es perfacto.
Don't be afraid to make language mistakes: the community will reread all the works! Texts between one hundred and one thousand words are perfect.
Mittente texto te concordo suo publicatione in revista ad vita รฆeterna. Nos conduco nos pro ute nunquam id in consilio lucroso.
By sending a text you accept its publication in the journal without time limit. We undertake never to use it for profit.
Mox ad http://AcProILl.github.io.
Soon at http://AcProIL.github.io.
The community doesn't seem all too active here but I'm still interested. How does one go about learning it? What can you do with the language?
The famous website Learn X in Y minutes has accepted translations into Peano's Interlingua (Latino sine Flexione).
The first two available articles are:
https://www.yolocoupons.com/udemy-free-coupon-the-english-word-the-building-blocks-of-english-grammar/
