Blog in Interlingua by new student: Daniel Hollande

There's a blog here by what seems to be a new Interlingua student that might be worth keeping an eye on. The blog author says he's writing it to learn the language but in doing so he's created some interesting resources (and there will probably be more later), such as this list of colours:

COLORES
■ albe white
■ aquamarin aquamarine
■ argentin (also argentee) silver, silvery, argentine (silver-*coloured)
■ aurate (also auree) golden, (gold-*coloured)
■ azur azure, blue
■ beige beige
■ blanc white
■ blau blue
■ blau celeste sky blue
■ blau de Prussia Prussian blue
■ blau marin navy/sea blue
■ blau turchese turquoise blue
■ brun brown
■ carmesin crimson
■ castantie chestnut-*coloured
■ cinerose ashen, ash-*coloured, ash-grey (Br.), ash-gray (US), cinereous
■ citrin lemon-*coloured
■ cyanic cyan, cyanic
■ del color de crema cream
■ del color de fango drab, mud-*coloured, brownish
■ del color de hyacintho hyacinth-*coloured
■ del color de indigo indigo
■ del color de lavandula lavender-*coloured
■ del color de marron maroon
■ del color de mulatto tawny, orange-brown, mulatto
■ ferruginose rust-*coloured, russet
■ flammee flame-*coloured
■ flave golden-yellow
■ glauc sea-green, blue-green, glaucous
■ gris grey (Br.), gray (US)
■ hyacinthin hyacinth-*coloured, hyacinthine
■ incarnate flesh-*coloured
■ jalne yellow
■ mellate honey-*coloured
■ nigre black
■ orange orange
■ paleate straw-*coloured
■ purpuree purple
■ rosate (also rosee) pink, rose
■ rubee reddish (approximate)
■ rubicunde rubicund, ruddy (approximate)
■ rubide dark red
■ rubie (also rubre) red
■ *russeo? deep-red, russet, flame-red
■ scarlatin scarlet
■ turchese turquoise
■ ultramarin ultramarine, deep-blue
■ verde green
■ vermilie, vermilion vermilion (bright red, scarlet)
■ violacee violaceous, violet-*coloured
■ violette violet
■ vitellin egg yolk-*coloured, vitelline



There's also an interesting image here of the cardinal directions in Interlingua. I think new users are the best because they usually don't try to mess around with the language by replacing hic with aqui and all the rest. Long-time Interlingua users: Interlingua is fine the way it is. Replacing hic, etiam, nemo and all the rest will only end up weakening the language, will weaken its claim to being "le latino moderne" and will give the impression of little more than a relexified Spanish.


Finally, be sure to notice the list of other blogs in Interlingua on the right. They are:

• Actualitates per Carlos Valcárcel
• Alberto Mardegan "Mardy"
• Alyssa St. James
• Ana Saldovar
• Antonia L. Sprague
• Erik Enfors
• Francisco Forgiamonte
• Harleigh Kyson
• Hugo Scagnetti
• I.S.E. per Jairo Feris
• Jan Årmann
• Lars Rosenmeier
• Le Oculo Interlinguistic per robocap
• Marteins Svenssonar
• Martijn Dekker
• Paolo Castellina
• Paul LeCorde
• Petro Kovács