"Emanuele D'Arrigo" <man...@gmail.com> writes: > Ultimately I certainly appreciate the ubiquity of English even though > in the interest of fairness and efficiency I'd prefer the role of > common language to be given to a constructed language, such as Ido.
I prefer Lojban <URL:http://www.lojban.org/> as being logically robust while fully expressive, and sharing the Ido goal of avoiding disadvantage to native speakers of any particular existing language. > But it doesn't take a particularly religious person to see that "do to > others as you would want them do to you" tends to be a valid principle Indeed, religion is entirely redundant to that principle: one of the earliest independent expressions of that principle is from a quite non-religious philosopher. 己所不欲、勿施于人。 (What is undesirable to you, do not do to others.) —孔夫子 Confucius, 551 BCE – 479 BCE I prefer this formulation, since it doesn't enjoin to *do* something to others on the unproven assumption that someone else wants the same as me :-) -- \ Moriarty: “Forty thousand million billion dollars? That money | `\ must be worth a fortune!” —The Goon Show, _The Sale of | _o__) Manhattan_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
