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Mondlango is not better than Glosa
shearzar ("shearzar" <ken.scherer@...>) on November 27, 2008
I am still waiting on my 18 steps Glos book. It’s on back order.
Somethin= g funny to share: Out of curiosity, I checked out Mondlango, a revision of= Esperanto.
A few Esperanto articles (one of which calls Mondlango an “an=
tecesor
del globish”), caused me to think Mondlango is an Adjuvilo-like
E=
speranto joke.
I spent hours looking in vain for info about He Yafu. Sure=
ly, the
creator of a language that purportedly has tens of thousands of
s=
peakers since its creation in 2002 would have his picture Online. Is
He Ya=
fu an Esperanto pun for “Hey, you fool”?
On mondlango.com, FAQ #20 says= , “Mondlango has realized the dream of ‘one symbol one sound’ both theoret= ically and practically.” Yet, we find on the Alphabet page the comment, “s= emivowels: w y. Semivowels can be combined with vowels to form diphthongs,= such as ay [ai], ey[ei], oy[oi], aw[au], ow[ou].”
Websters New World Col= lege Dictionary 4th Edition says a diphthong is, “a complex vowel sound ma= de by gliding continuously from the position for one vowel to that for ano= ther within the same syllable, as (ou) in down.”
Page two of the Alphab= et on mondlango.com says, “The number of syllables in a word is given by t= he number of vowels.”
Before we even get to Online lesson one, we see tha= t Mondlango comments about one symbol one sound, diphthongs, and one vowel= per syllable are contradictory!
I still haven’t found an auxlang that I= like better than Glosa!! :-)
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