Re: Lingua Eurana tradition

"Paul Bartlett" wrote:

> I looked at the introduction quickly, but even without studying it in
> depth (apart from the misspellings of "always" and "diphthong"), I see
> some problems.

 Thank you, now corrected.

> Most adult English speakers have a terrible difficulty pronouncing /y/
> (German 'ü', French 'u') correctly.

The next generation of European-Speakers, their children, will be able to 
pronounce correctly all the phonems which are difficult to English
speakers 
of today.

> I suggest that for a constructed international auxiliary language the
> vowel scheme be kept relatively simple.  Vowels are tricky for most
> adult learners of another language.

The English vowel system is the trickyist (?) of Europa. It is a horror.


> I find it odd that the language has an indefinite article but no
> definite article.  Usually (as in classical Greek, Ido, and Esperanto),
> it is the other way around.

This is another way of using an article. Why using the old paths?

Greetings

Klaus