Re: "par coeur" origin


gnenian wrote:

Well some of this does look interesting / erudite - in the same way as
esperanto might to someone wanting to learn european languages but
beyond the poetry and associations ...?!

Sorry, but I think there is a big difference between Magdalenian
and Esperanto. I am pondering what I call the verbal morphospace
in the some eight languages I learned, looking out for traces the
early languages left in our recent languages, whereas Esperanto
is an artificial language, composed of stilted words, doesn't fit
into the verbal morphospace, which is the reason why it does
not succeed: stilll a hobby of a relatively small group of people,
they have not even a good pop group with a number one hit in
Esperanto. A language that can't be sung has no chance. Our
brain is not a Von Neumann computer, it is a neuronal network,
and keeps a memory of early language(s) in ways we don't yet
understand. New words are only accepted when they fit into the
verbal morphospace. May be that neuronal computers of a not
so far future will be helpful in reconstructing Magdalenian and still
earlier languages, but for the time being this work must be done
single-handedly or rather single-mindedly by pioneers like me,
who ain't afeard of a systematic killrating campaign as the one
going on against me in the Google version of sci.lang.

Thanks for the interest

Franz Gnaedinger

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