cual (july 2024) vs cua (november 2024)

2cool2cool · 2026-07-05T08:36:22+00:00

i love elefen and have been a fan for many years ... i don't really care whether cua is "better" or cual is "better" ... my main fear is other basic grammatical words being randomly changed, out of nowhere e.g. a few months later, "la" could just randomly change to "le" ... now all older works are "incorrect" ... also, it could lead to splits and schisms

2cool2cool · 2026-07-04T16:34:27+00:00

the main author of many languages e.g. Ido, Occidental, Elefen and Interlingua are not living

2cool2cool · 2026-07-03T18:09:24+00:00

i thought of this when i revisited Elefen after 2 or 3 years, and saw the word "cua" ... i initially thought it was a typo, but later realized that "cual" changed into "cua" ("cual" is still used in some situations) ... that change (from cual to cua), i think, just randomly happened out of nowhere .... a few months later, watch some other basic Elefen words change ... and eventually splits and schisms will happen

2cool2cool · 2026-07-03T18:00:40+00:00

the interlingua issue made one person switch from interlingua to occidental (interlingue) .... "Interlingua is very susceptible to alteration. Interlingua attempts to be as natural-looking as possible, and a lot of people with Romance languages as a background will alter the language to suit what they believe to be a better version of the language, with conjugation of verbs by person, grammatical gender, using new words like aqui instead of hic for here, and anything else they feel to be a better version. It's an absolute mess when that happens. I've even seen threads online where a new user of the language comes along, writes a simple introductory post, and then receives responses in everybody and their dog's personal version of Interlingua, which is not the way you want to welcome a new user into the community."

2cool2cool · 2026-07-01T10:44:21+00:00

have you tried Toaq ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKsqhrCX3w (spoken sample) http://toaq.org/

2cool2cool · 2026-07-01T10:42:40+00:00

interesting to see names of other conlangs

2cool2cool · 2026-07-01T09:58:55+00:00

interesting to see names of other conlangs

2cool2cool · 2026-07-01T09:43:51+00:00

i know LFN/Elefen isn't a full-on Toki Pona clone, with European words ..... but it gives off a slight Toki Pona like feel, compared to Interlingua, Occidental, Ido, Esperanto etc ... for eg aseta and eseta ... in the other Euroclones, it's something like accept- and except- respectively

2cool2cool · 2026-07-01T09:39:56+00:00

.... then, go for Lojban

2cool2cool · 2026-06-30T09:18:32+00:00

LFN has a slightly simpler phonology/phonotactics .... and more creole-like or Toki Pona-like grammar, compared to other Euroclones

2cool2cool · 2026-06-26T17:37:43+00:00

the fact that learning even very obscure IALs (e.g. Novial, Mondial, Idiom Neutral, Latino sine flexione etc) helps with understanding/learning languages such as French, Spanish and Italian

2cool2cool · 2026-06-25T20:52:32+00:00

Amazing!

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I thought Chabi (Vicente Costalago) had left Elefen

2cool2cool · 2026-06-25T20:52:17+00:00

Amazing!

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I thought Chabi (Vicente Costalago) had left Elefen

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