Can anyone here speak an international auxiliary language - Esperanto being the best known language of this type?
With Aspies often having semantic-pragmatic difficulties, these types of language may be suitable for some of us as pragmatics are not as well developed as in languages that have naturally evolved. That's because IAL's are constructed, and of more recent construction at that, and messages in them can be taken more literally, although Esperanto may be a lot more developed in pragmatics due to much heavier usage. Apart from Esperanto, Ido and Interlingua are two examples of more used IAL's.
23 Jul 2009, 7:00 pm
