Euroclone

From Langmaker

Euroclone n. [< Euro- + clone.] Pejorative. An a posteriori constructed language patterned after European languages. Examples include Esperanto, Ido, Novial, etc.

Earliest Citation:

"The Eurolang proposal, on the other hand, seems to have totally ignored the issue of semantics and meaning in the interest of 'recognizable' words, forgetting the fact that high-recognition cognates are often false friends that severely mislead in subtleties of meaning. Likewise Glosa, and most other Euroclone languages that seem to think that all that is necessary to a language is eliminating irregularities and trusting to some universal common sense (that isn't all that universal) to delineate what a word or sentence means." - Bob LeChevalier, "Single European Language", alt.politics.ec, 28 June 1995

Recent Citation:

"Some euroclone fanatics work overtime to ridicule Ygyde compound words." - Andrew Nowicki, "Re: Oligosynthetic languages (Was Re: Take the ygyde challenge)", AUXLANG, 6 January 2006