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Re: [glosalist] Re: The Glosa Killer App
Robin Fairbridge Gaskell (Robin Fairbridge Gaskell <drought-breaker@...>) on March 30, 2006
Karo Wayne e Plu Amika,
At 05:01 AM 3/28/06, you wrote:
I accidentally sent a part-formed reply.
As I was going to say – I think a conlang’s success relies on getting it out in the popular consciousness, through things like literature, magazines, music, and film. The best thing you could do would be to find a director willing to shoot short films in an auxiliary language, so that there would then be some actual material for interested people to be exposed to the language. Glosa, like several other IAL projects I think could develop into something major given a chance, seems mostly to be the stuff of introverted journals. At this point, even a blog in the language would be a big step.
- Wayne S. Rossi
— Vasiliy vabot@... wrote:
Hi Bill!
Thank you for your message “The Glosa Killer App” and for your thoughts. It’s all right. ……………
I wish to point out that Wendy Ashby has been working with creative people to incorporate Glosa into their creative work, and has had a number of successes.
A major lubricant to the process of dissemination, would be suitable instruction books - at various levels - and a range of easy readers in Glosa. These still need to be written, and this is mainly because people interested in the language have stayed with vocabulary-building. Once all had agreed on a suitable training vocabulary, then instructional works using this training vocabulary could be compiled by the group. Additional words can be added, progressively in a primer, but their meanings would need to be given in the text, and in a range of languages.
My favourite idea is ~Doci Glosa Uti Glosa~. By starting with one Glosa word, possibly ~andro~, and adding to it with obvious pictures, a story can be built up without reference to any other language. Needless to say, the learner will progress more quickly if he, or she, has a trainer dictionary in their own language.
But, this is just one idea! Each, who sees the beauty in Glosa, probably has their own idea of how others could best get into the language, and what sort of learner's book would achieve this. All this should be based, as Vasiliy says, on a well worked out business plan.
So, what's on our shopping list:
* a business plan
* well-written primers
* a learners' vocabulary
* creative people who write songs, make films, etc
* a forward minded philanthropist.
That's enough for a start. But we'd probably need a co-ordinating committee to ensure a balanced, and systematic, development.
Maybe one, or more, graded grammar books would help, as well.
What such a co-ordinating group would not need is endless discussion about what is best. By now, with all that has been written in, and about, Glosa, a dedicated group co-operating positively could quite quickly arrive at working principles that might be translated into the writing of various grammars, primers reading books, and the production of artistic works.
I might have overlooked the financial sponsor. However, a lot of creative work can be done with brains, pencils and paper - before a sponsor is found.
Best wishes to All … for Good Communication,
Saluta,
Robin Gaskell
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