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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...                    Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6337 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerI dunno about that, it might be more close to german. 
And also, there's already been tries to make a international language. Like Esperanto... |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828  Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6338 days |
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I actually think English is a poor candidate for a universal language. It's so complicated for someone who doesn't speak it natively, with all its grammar rules with 18475839 exceptions and words that are spelled the same but mean different and all that junk. Unfortunately it seems the most likely choice, simply because it's the US official language. 
What I think might work best is a language that's really simple, but doesn't suck like all the really simple languages I've seen. Sure, only having 25 words is great, except that you need to use all of them 14 times to make a sentence.  I did start working on a simple alphabet that could be used with Latin-based languages, though. It's actually based on Katakana, but with really simple glyphs. You have one 'outside' shape and one 'inside' shape. Each letter is (as in Katakana) a consonant followed by a vowel (though lone consonants and vowels exist as well). The outer shape defines which consonant, and the inner shape defines which vowel. It removed 3 redundant consonants (C (S or K replaces it), X (KS), and Q (KW)) in favour of individual consonants for CH, SH and TH, and doesn't have uppercase. (IMO it's fairly pointless; sentence beginnings and proper nouns can be marked by something else, such as a vertical line before the letter.) The major advantages of this sort of system are that it shortens the number of letters per word, has a lot less glyphs to memorize, can still be typed just as the Roman alphabet would, and is easier for computers to understand (as it's more phonetic). The downside is it adds up to 132 characters (22 consonants x 6 vowels, including the no-consonant/no-vowel characters), which would require some changes to how computers store files written with it. (Unless they just use Unicode.  )
But like I said, I didn't actually finish it, and I imagine there's a lot of improvements that could be made. Basically just a random thought. (Hell, there might even be one like this I don't know of.)(edited by HyperHacker on 01-25-06 02:43 AM) |
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Koitenshin +∞ Moblin Since: 12-24-05 From: Misery Last post: 6340 days Last view: 6340 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker English has been spoken for thousands of years and is generally accepted in most of the world so if we ever do have a universal language it would probably be that. Just like how most countries accept U.S. Dollars. |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6340 days Last view: 6337 days |
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Originally posted by Koitenshinthousands of years? english is a universal language on this planet since many schools in foreign countries teach english as part of the cirriculum... |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6338 days Last view: 6338 days |
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Originally posted by Koitenshin If you had bothered to read the post: I stated that English is complicated for people who don't speak it natively because of its differences from just about every other language on the face of the Earth. It's easy as a first language, but those who speak something else tend to get confused by the weird rules. Also my alphabet was a random idea and designed to be used with existing languages (same words, different symbols) to make it easier for foreigners to learn and computers to interpret. |
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