Talk:Interlingua

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It was time to archive the old discussion. --Chris 16:03, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: There has been some confusion regarding Interlingua and machine translation. The idea that one could use a naturalistic constructed language as a way to represent semantics more directly and serve as a go-between in translating from one language to another is very exciting to me personally, which is why I also click through and read a bit when I see links to articles about "Interlingua" being used in machine translation. However, I've never seen an article that actually talked about using Interlingua in this way. An "interlingua" is the term used for any such intermediary language. Such a language usually winds up looking nothing like a natural language and is usually populated with English glosses.
For this reason I am removing the bit about Interlingua being used to translate "Asian" languages from the main article, along with those two articles at the end. They are in fact completely unrelated to Interlingua.
--Cliff Jones, M.A. (Linguistics) (talk) 01:34, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation Needed! 

message: For me Interlingua is just a simplified Italian language with English grammar and some extra French words! - Zanzibar  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.0.134.105 (talk) 16:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interlingua = simplified Italian 

message: I am surprised that on the map that's shown in this article, Canada (excluding Québec) is shown as having more speakers of French than, for example, Morrocco. Having lived in both countries and travelling between the two regularly, I have the feeling there are more speakers of French in Morrocco than, say, in Alberta. However, I may be wrong as I do not have any data to confirm this impression. I invite anyone who does know how to get that data to update the map should it be wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Niccoben (talk • contribs) 01:43, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I know an American woman who spent her early formative years in Morocco and can confirm that her mother tongue was indeed French. Judging by this instance, I would say that Morocco at least as as many speakers of French as Canada does percentage-wise and surely more than those outside of Francophone Canada.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.229.111.74 (talk) 06:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I’ve removed the map. See below for French in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. --Babelfisch (talk) 03:05, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: French more spoken in Canada than in Morrocco?

message: From the opening lines: "[Interlingua] is the most widely used naturalistic auxiliary language." My changing this to "... the most widely used purely naturalistic..." has been contested; but aren't more widely used languages like Esperanto and Ido partially naturalistic in that many words resemble those in national languages? --Kwekubo 01:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that no-one has expressed any contrary opinions I'll go ahead and reinsert "purely". --Kwekubo 15:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naturalistic 

message: I've gone ahead and migrated the history section into History of Interlingua. I've also gone ahead and attempted to remove some of the more detailed portions of the section in order to make it summary-style, although I believe it should really be rewritten. I'll try to do some more work with it, but this is just a heads-up for any regulars of the page who are interested. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 03:30, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section migrated into its own article 

message: I was just looking for a language called "Romanica" and was redirected to Interlingua. Is Romanica another name or an older form? If so, I think it should be mentioned in the article somewhere... — N-true 14:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After a cursory Google search, it seems to me that Romanica is a separate language, so I cannot understand why it redirects here. Maybe someone with some Interlingua experience could help here? -ExNoctem 03:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

text: See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romanica language and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Romanica --Rumping 19:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If anyone cares, 'Romanica' created by the basque interlinguist Josu Lavin, is a conlang that interestingly has exactly the same vocabulary as interlingua, but slightly different grammar and spelling. It only has a few speakers, and Josu Lavin now seems to have taken down the websites promoting the language.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurentio313 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: NOTE: There were two discussions being held of the same vein on this discussion page (one is called Romanica, the other Interlingua = Romanica?). I have deleted the comments held under Romanica and pasted/appended them to this discussion (Interlingua = Romanica?). They can be seen here below (one by User:EncycloPetey the other by User:Almafeta) --CavallèroTalk 18:22, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The link Romanica language redirects here, but there is no explanation for this in the article. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading over the history, for that page, it appears that Romanica was a derivative of Interlingua that used a different grammar (much more romantic, with Romantic-style inflection in verbs and nouns/adjectives) but mostly the same vocabulary.  The AfD for Romanica ruled that it would be appropriate for Romanica language to be redirected to the Interlingua page as one of the derivatives of Interlingua, but that change/note was never added to the Interlingua article.  Almafeta (talk) 19:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a community of Romanica speakers, albeit small, on the web. There are also a couple or several sites. Personally, I think Romanica should not be redirected to Interlingua. It should probably be included on the list of developed constructed auxiliary languages. It is true that Josu Lavin has moved away from Romanica and has returned to Interlingua, however, he has made an impact through his creation of Romanica and it should be recognised in this enclyclopedia. --CavallèroTalk 18:03, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: NOTE: I have changed this discussion section title from 'Romanica = Interlingua?' to 'Redirection of Romanica to Interlingua'. --CavallèroTalk 15:51, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection of Romanica to Interlingua 

message: 70.112.188.37(talk) removed the following text:
 The largest number of Interlingua words are of Latin origin and have entered Interlingua 
 through the Romance languages. Greek and Germanic languages provide the second and third 
 amount of words, with a minority of the vocabulary originating in Slavic and non-Western 
 languages.
with the notation
(rm misleading passage - the origins of Interlingua words are incidental and here make the language appear much less international than it is - also, minor details should appear later in an article)
I have reverted this, on the thesis that the origins of words in any language, but particularly in a constructed language are extremely relevant to an article on that language.  We certainly wouldn't want the article on the English language, for example, to have the section on word origins removed, and most people already know something about the origins of words in English.  Why, then, would we want to remove references to the origins of words in a constructed language, about which most people would know nothing?
Remember, it's not our job to make the language "appear" more or less anything.  Wikipedia's job is to report verifiable information.
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 14:55, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted Deletion 

message: Yes get rid of all the idioms of language and create a new one, such as newspeak (-1984). -PatPeter 18:57, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interlingua is an excellent language, I have seen Esperanto, and have decided thta I actually know way more interlingua, and I havent even studied it I just have a small (microscopic) understanding of spanish. it is a glorios language that i am going to try an learn. Esperanto is difficult. newspeak looks pretty good though, I like the idea. though it was desgined to look evil, it actually seems pretty good, no more cunfusion, shorter english classes, less missunderstanding, though peotry will be missing ( I hate the stuff anyways) but music will deisappear.  but progress has sacrifice. (Masterxak 06:00, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't say Esperanto is difficult when you haven't learned it yet. The vocabulary in Interlingua might be easier to recognize for you, but there's also grammar. In my opinion the Esperanto grammar is easier than Interlingua, but this is just my opinion. But even compared with Interlingua, Esperanto cannot be called "difficult". ;) — N-true 11:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't say the grammar is so difficult; if anything it's simpler than Esperanto's. The complicated part of Interlingua is the morphology - word formation and so on. But that's also the key to it's high degree of recognisability.66.183.165.57 00:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I never said the grammar would be difficult. After all, morphology is a part of a language's grammar. — N-true 00:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With my native knowledge of English and a fair vocabulary (but epic failure in grammar and structure) in French, and microscopic familiarity with the distorted Spanish in Cebuano, I'd have to say that my comprehension of Interlingua is greater than my comprehension of Esperanto.  And that is all I can produce as fact.  And that, as sure as gravity, 'aint going into any encyclopedia article. --Talionis (Shout me · Stalk me) 06:41, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Language 

message: So, where is this elusive "community"? I've been interested in learning Interlingua for some time now, but I haven't found anywhere to learn it.  I like Lingua Franca Nova, and they have their own wikipedia, but I'm interested in learning Interlingua, too.  It's quite widely known, and it's not half as ugly as Esperanto, since I want to teach at least one conlang to my kid. Contact me if you know. InnocentOdion 15:12, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here it is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/interlng/ You'll need to register through your regular email address to post though, as on Yahoo Groups I think it's just a mirror and doesn't accept postings through a regular Yahoo account. Mithridates 16:33, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a million for the website.  I've signed up.  However, are there any more? And is there a better place to learn it than interlingua.com? That site isso in need of revamp.  I'd love a website with a layout like lingua-franca-nova.net or lernu.net.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by InnocentOdion (talk • contribs) 11:04, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community 

message: The article says there is no subjunctive, but the sia in the Lord's Prayer clearly is one.  That's a contradiction.  — Chameleon 00:35, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the only one. But yes, someone should clarify that.05:06, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subjunctive? 

message: I saw that the Phonology graph for the consonants didn't have an ŋ in it. Was this left out on purpose, or should it be added?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.165.156 (talk) 23:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I suppose it was left out on purpose, because while the [ŋ] might be pronounced in Interlingua, it's not phonemic, so a word like lingua is phonemically /ˈlinɡua/ and only phonetically [ˈliŋɡua]. The table lists only the phonemes of the language. — N-true (talk) 00:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phonology 

message: English eye and German Auge are not descended from Latin oculus at all, contrary to what was stated in the article. On the other hand, the Romance words (ojo, occhio, olho, etc) do descend from Latin oculus (by way of Vulgar Latin oclu). Seeing that the Germanic and Romance languages are related, one might say (informally) that eye and Auge were "cousins" of oculus - but never its descendants.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.199.51 (talk) 05:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vocabulary 

message: I'm a huge supporter of Interlingua - in fact, I'm on the executive of one of the national organizations - but I would never deny that there are some spelling irregularities, if by irregularities we mean departures from one-symbol:one-phoneme mappings that are not covered by simple rules. For example, girafa 'giraffe' begins with /ʒ/ (or /dʒ/) while girar 'gyrate' begins with /g/. The fact that the Interlingua-English Dictionary needs a pronunciation key for some words is sufficient documentation for this fact. 64.180.222.133 (talk) 18:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you sure the word girafa is pronounced with /ʒ/ or /dʒ/ in the beginning? I'm not an Interlingua speaker, but could it be it's pronounced with a /g/ as in German "Giraffe"? — N-true (talk) 18:16, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The IED says "girafa (jiráfa) n giraffe". In practice, you could get away with /girafa/ - I doubt anyone would notice. In fact, some people ignore the hard G rule and say /ʒirar/ etc. with no real miscommunication. (Come to think of it, I don't understand why Gode & Co. went for the soft G, when they substituted hard G for Anglo-Romance soft G in so many other cases. But the IED is clear on the question.)64.180.222.133 (talk) 18:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling irregularities 

message: I have some troube with this sextion:
 More recently, Interlingua's grammar has been likened to the simple grammars of 
 Japanese and particularly Chinese.
Who claims Japanese has simple grammar? It doesn't inflect by person but except for that, I wouldn't say it's any simpler than Western languages, just different. I studied the basics earlier, and it hasn't struck me as a grammatically simple language. Chinese, on the other hand, I understand, 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 22:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Japanese grammar simple?

message: How come the Lord's Prayer in this article is so different from the one in the Interlingua version of this article? Shouldn't they be the same, since (assuming 'Specimen de Interlingua' means what I think it does) they're both in Interlingua? Are they traditional and modern versions? 
Nostre Patre, qui es in le celos,
que tu nomine sia sanctificate;
que tu regno veni;
que tu voluntate sia facite
super le terra como etiam in le celo.
Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,
e pardona a nos nostre debitas
como nos pardona a nostre debitores,
e non duce nos in tentation,
sed libera nos del mal.
Amen.	
Patre nostre, qui es in le celos,
sia sanctificate tu nomine.
Que veni tu regno.
Sia facite tu voluntate,
como in le celo, etiam super le terra.
Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,
e pardona a nos nostre debitas,
como etiam nos los pardona a nostre debitores.
E non induce nos in tentation,
sed libera nos del mal.
Amen.
And another question... does there even need to be be a sample of Interlingua on that page, which is entirely written in Interlingua? I guess there is some use for it, since nobody reading the page would be a native speaker, and so probably wouldn't already know the translation, and would find it useful to compare it with their native language. But then, (tangent on a tangent coming up) most people in "the entire world" do not know the Lord's Prayer. Still, I suppose we won't get much better than 2 billion out of 6 billion with any other sample text. Angelastic (talk) 13:52, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not particularly different, except for the word order. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 20:55, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Seeing as most people in "the entire world" do not know the Lord's Prayer, maybe we should have it in English (or whatever language version being viewed) as well? I for one do not know the Lord's Prayer. I mean, not everyone is able to figure out the Interlingua meanings, and there are definitely a lot of people who can't read the Latin well, if at all. It'd be helpful, wouldn't it? Sparkstarthunderhawk (talk) 01:33, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

text: The Lord's Prayer and the Babel Text are traditional methods for comparing human languages (a much longer one is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but that's too long for a wikipedia article).  An english translation should definately be provided.  Almafeta (talk) 13:14, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lord's Prayer translation(s) 

message: I deleted this bit: "the most recent conference (2005), in Sweden, was attended by slightly over 250 people.", because it is incorrect, as I pointed out several years ago! (I was there myself - there were about 80 people.) 
In general I think the article has serious neutrality issues. Some of the information seems downright misleading. For instance:
"Interlingua is taught in many high schools and universities, sometimes as a means of teaching other languages quickly, presenting interlinguistics, or introducing the international vocabulary."
While it's true that the University of Granada have courses in interlinguistics where they study Interlingua, I highly doubt that it has been taught in any highschools since the seventies. Later I'll look for the issue of Panorama that is cited as a course, but I'm reasonably sure.
Also, is it really in accordance with the principles of neutrality etc. to use so many texts written by interlinguists themselves (*in* Interlingua, even) for backing up claims of the success/benefits of Interlingua? 
See for instance this paragraph: 
"Today, interest in Interlingua has expanded from the scientific community to the general public. Individuals, governments, and private companies use Interlingua for learning and instruction, travel, online publishing, and communication across language barriers.[24][25][26]"
That cites as sources three texts in Interlingua written by two highly esteemed interlinguists. 
I'm an Interlingua speaker myself, but I can't stomach this kind of thing in what is supposed to be a neutral encyclopedia. Who has been writing this article anyway? Some other Interlingua speakers? 
--Laurentio313 (talk) 01:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I added an NPOV warning. Caroliano (talk) 16:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree too, and I'm an Interlingua fanatic myself.64.180.222.133 (talk) 22:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmm... Chris "Ave"? :-) ::--Laurentio313 (talk) 13:59, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Serious neutrality/veracity issues

message: Salute, Laurentia and everyone else. The article has received a lot of excellent contributions by various people, and has been almost totally free of some of the politics found in some articles. There's a basis for a really fine article. That said, I think it needs to be shorter and more neutral. It's an encyclopedia article: we're neither advocating nor attacking the use of Interlingua for any particular purpose; we're just documenting it as an interesting phenomenon. The average person coming  here is not likely to have an intense interest in the minutia of Interlingua history or the current state of the Interlingua movement. All that sort of detail can be exported to sub-articles, of which there are already several. What I suggest we emphasise are the highlights: the unique qualities of interlingua, where it fits in the whole auxiliary-language field, what uses it's been put to. Something about half the current length, but the deleted material should be (mostly) re-worked and exported to subsidiary articles.64.180.222.133 (talk) 17:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-write/edit?

message: Adding a new section for a NPOV dispute is recommended in the how-to guide.
Reasons enumerated in Section 14 are sufficient for validating this dispute.
My only contributions (about 700 edits ago) were removed in a matter of days by one person who described the deletions as minor corrections and a rework -- no shadow of the content was reflected in the rework, however.  The information, which reflected the views of one of the mid-20th-century directors of the IALA (with whom I enjoyed a brief correspondence) was certainly appropriate to an historical discussion of Interlingua. (I have a record of my interaction with Frank Esterhill -- source material.) Any information that offers a balance to the gushing and glowing pro-Interlingua propaganda in the article is removed.  The low status of Interlingua, and conlangs in general, on the world stage is not accepted by the ideologues.  This link http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/interlingua.pdf from the NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY demonstrates that a massive amount of Interlingua and IALA history and research is not reflected in the Interlingua article.
Championdante (talk) 00:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked at your previous edit, and in my opinion it was a good contribution and shouldn't have been removed. But it did require further editing. I'd encourage you to make it again.64.180.222.133 (talk) 18:37, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV dispute 

message: The French œil, Italian occhio, Spanish ojo, and Portuguese olho appear quite different, but they descend from a historical form oculus. German Auge, Dutch oog and English eye (cf. Russian око)
"Eye" in Russian = "glaz". "Oko" means "eye" in all Slavic languages. The word "око" is used in the Russian literary language as a poetic form.
http://www.gramota.ru/slovari/dic/?word=%EE%EA%EE&all=x  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.223.40.46 (talk) 10:00, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right! I've changed that part and replaced "око" with oko and "Russian" with "Czech and Polish". — N-true (talk) 18:51, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently "око" is a poetic form, at least according to Wiktionary. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 23:14, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not just according to Wiktionary. It certainly exists in Russian, although glaz is much more common in the modern language. If you can read Russian, you can verify it at http://slovari.yandex.ru/ . --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:30, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Eye" in Russian - not "oko" 

message: dʒ is given as the pronunciation of 'j', but is absent from the chart giving the consonant inventory. 72.75.81.72 (talk) 23:19, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phonology 

message: I think the section on the IALA could be cut down in size, if not removed entirely, since this article should be really only be about the language Interlingua rather than the organisation. Perhaps a link to the IALA article could take its place.
Also, I'm not sure about the references which are being used, a lot of them seem to be from the IALA and other Interlingua groups rather than disinterested third parties, which may be preferable. What does everyone else think?Rtdixon86 (talk) 18:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ordinarily this sort of thing would be handled by having a brief section here with a  tag at the top.  The International Auxiliary Language Association article is currently a stub while the IALA section here is larger, so presumably the rearrangement would involve integrating a good deal of the IALA material from the section here into that article; note that, to satisfy copyright, the edit summary there needs to say that the material comes from here.  (Cf. WP:SPLIT.)  --Pi zero (talk) 00:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  My thoughts 

message: The first para of the section Criticism claims:
:While Interlingua is a successful auxiliary language, it has been criticised, often by proponents of other auxiliary languages. This may be partly because both supporters and opponents see Interlingua as a candidate for being the universal, neutral second language for the world to use.[6][45]
Which seems like declaring:
:OK, there's criticism against this language, but that's not to be taken seriously, because the criticism is made by speakers of other auxiliary languages.
That is not WP:NPOV!
A neutral Criticism section should tell us:
:1. try to classify criticisms, such as in "naturalness/artificialness", "grammar", "intelligiblity", "learnability" etc.,
:2. paragraph per paragraph make a short discourse per criticism classes according to 1., and if available also write the counterarguments.
As it is now, the Criticism section does:
:para 1. declares that all criticism comes from envious competitors — yadayadayada!,
:para 2. explains how fantastical it is — no criticism,
:para 3. (unsourced!) not as international/neutral as claimed, spelling issues - should IMHO be split and sourced
:para 4. (unsourced!) counterarguments to the previous, and an out-of-the blue praise of the grammar of Interlingua - should IMHO be interspersed with several per-topic criticism paragraphs
And don't forget that the most well-structured language is the easiest to criticise. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 16:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking about the gremlins, why is it that there is an article Criticism of Esperanto but no Criticism of Interlingua? Is Interlingua not noteworthy enough? A superficial googling for "criticism of Esperanto" gives 19 700 hits and a googling for "criticism of Interlingua" gives 5 590 hits, which makes Interlingua noteworthy on the web. But not here? Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 16:18, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

text: I agree with this.  Sourced or not, the opening statement reads like the only criticisms are from other auxiliary language supporters.  The particular statement "as a candidate for being the universal...language" is extremely blatant.  216.96.14.215 (talk) 01:30, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Criticism intro

message: I would like some info on the syntax of interlingua, if possible (= sourceable). Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 11:09, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Syntax?

message: This section is too biased. It empathizes suppression and persecution, some "treatening letters" (from whom? was it anonymous letter? treatening letter without mentioning from whom it is received says nothing about aleged persecution), dispite the mentioned fact that Interlingua was teached in schools there(!), a practice never observed in the West. I suggest this section be rewritten more neutral.--MathFacts (talk) 11:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the Socialist bloc 

message: The guy's name is Walter Rädler. Please correct. --217.6.251.18 (talk) 11:12, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walter Raédler 

message: I’ve removed the map because it contains several grave errors and is highly misleading. In addition what has been noted above, e.g. French (or any other Romance language) is not “commonly spoken” in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia – neither as a first nor as a second language. English has long eclipsed French as a second language taught in schools in those countries, and the proportion of non-native speakers of French is higher in most European countries than it is in those three South-East Asian countries. --Babelfisch (talk) 03:05, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: Excists at least two reference according matter of Interlingua presentation at European parliament. Its not full clear if that were face-to-face presentation or written recommendation only. There is high presumption that it was done face-to-face like same kind of technical briefing. I only tripped over during browsing interlingua.com/libros  .  
REF#1: http://www.interlingua.com/libros/god-pet.htm
Gopsill, F. P.: Interlingua, concepto e structura
Un presentation de interlingua al Parlamento Europee, Bruxelles, le 29 de septembre 1993.
British Interlingua Society, 1993, 24 pp., ill., A5. .
Contine un excellente exposition del possibilitates de interlingua pro organisationes international.
British Interlingua Society: 1 GBP.
REF#2: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL609788M/Interlingua  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.128.3.22 (talk) 19:12, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interlingua at institutions of European Union 

message: What on -earth- is the part under 'Community' that says '[allowing] educated speakers of English, to read and understand it without prior study' supposed to mean..? The only chance a speaker of English, no matter how educated, is going to be able to read or understand this 'without prior study', unless that education is in the area of European languages, Latin or something of that ilk. =/
If that is what is intended then it really needs to be re-worded as it doesn't read that way, otherwise it ought to be removed. Thoughts one way or the other? =/
 -Joey- (talk) 03:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  'educated speakers of English'? 

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thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Hello,
IA sources claim it was the "most understandable IAL", which I contest.
Coming from Latino sine flexione, IA seems to have - broadly - taken up IL, added some grammar that was discussed in the "Discussiones" of the Academia pro Interlingua and rejected as "strippable", had a much narrower focus of participating linguists than IL, and took over much of the names and terms of Interlingua IL. "Interlingua de Peano", instead of "Interlingua de A.p.I.", seems to be a mis-nomer and false-leading; if at all, "Interlingua de IALA" should be "Interlingua IA de Gode", as Latino sine Flexione was discussed by a number of scientists in the Discussiones de Academia pro Interlingua, so a truly democratic and collaborative approach is documented for IL. Today, the term "Academia pro Interlingua", "Hard-Wired" into IL history, seems to have been grabbed by a "wikia fandom" community for IA.
IA may be more understandable for an Anglophone, and as it came out being almost a plagiarised IL certainly is easily understandable for people familiar with a Romanic language; however, as IL used also the approach of a "Vocabulario Commune" (EDITED by G. Peano), and had a principle to do away with everything deemed unnecessary by other languages (including the article, that IA still kept), I see reason to at least reduce IA's superiority claim to "ONE OF THE best understandable IALs", at least besides Interlingua de A.p.I. / Latino sine Flexione.
The corpus of original publications in IL de A.p.I. is given in the range of 3,000 pages (not counting IL textbooks and translations; as IL textbooks tend to be quite brief, they shouldn't have much of an impact, however). As there is no more A.p.I., IA may have more avid proponents that got it a language code; however, counted down, as IL-A.p.I. was used for scientific publications (normally tagged today as "Latin", "Italian"...) it may very well be that the IL-A.p.I. corpus is more extensive than the IA-IALA corpus. --217.224.148.215 (talk) 13:05, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The abbreviation IA is used for Interlingua of IALA (this article) while IL is used for Interlingua of Peano and ApI, aka Latino sine flexione. –MwGamera (talk) 22:03, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
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message: Eligibility of international words in Interlingua → Interlingua – I think that the content in the Eligibility of international words in Interlingua can easily be explained in the context of Interlingua, especially more WP:SUMMARIZED, and the Interlingua is of a reasonable size that the merging of Eligibility of international words in Interlingua will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned. --Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 08:50, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Fully agreed! And I believe the same thing goes for Free word-building in Interlingua as well. —IJzeren Jan  Uszkiełtu? 10:15, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: And now that we're at it, I noticed that History of Interlingua is practically identical to the history section of the main article. A separate history article is totally unneeded and even undesirable, since it makes things a lot harder to maintain. —IJzeren Jan  Uszkiełtu? 10:32, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
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"...though it is actively spoken by only a few hundred.[1]"
Citation is 24 years old... 69.117.213.159 (talk) 06:49, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated citation for the only user-population statistic? 

message: :In 1967, the International Organization for Standardization, which normalizes terminology, voted to adopt Interlingua as the basis for its dictionaries.
This is an interesting claim, but I can't find any evidence this went anywhere - Google turns up nothing.  Gospill's book costs 200 bucks and has only 1 review on Goodreads, so does anyone with access know if he has a citation for this?  Maybe it's stuck in dusty old books from the 60s, but this is a "press X to doubt" deal - does the ISO even publish "dictionaries"?  What topics were these Interlingua ISO dictionaries on?  Given the overstatements elsewhere in the older version of the article, it wouldn't shock me if there was some subcommittee somewhere that passed a resolution saying "Interlingua is cool" and had one 20-page circular in Interlingua, then was forgotten.  If this really happened, it's worth more information, hence moving this to the talk page rather than just deleting it, but as is it needs a better reference not from an Interlingua proponent (and, say, the ISO itself).  SnowFire (talk) 23:20, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I dug up Gopsill's book.  Don't be fooled by the title, an alternate title could well have been "Why Esperanto sucks and I hate it," as one of the theses advanced by Gopsill is that the world would have been happy to embrace the idea of an international language if Esperanto didn't suck and give conlangs a bad name.  Anyway he didn't really give more details, just that the ISO decision proved that Esperanto was wrong because Eugen Wüster was an Esperantist and he was on the ISO and therefore this proved that Esperantists agree it sucks and Interlingua was better.  Best kept out unless we can have a more neutral source described what exactly happened and what the relevance was.  SnowFire (talk) 03:33, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alleged use by ISO