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darxus ([personal profile] darxus) wrote2009-07-28 03:32 pm
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Improving human language

I want people to gradually stop using different words to say the same thing just because they were born on different parts of the planet.

One word at a time, start speaking the same vocabulary. Maybe something better than we have now, formed from all the languages we do have, maybe Esperanto.

"Ten words account for 23.7 % of the words on any page..."

English: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it.

EnglishEsperanto
1thela
2andkaj
3of/fromde
4I/memi
5in/intoen
6to/towardsal
7no/notne
8heli
9was
am/are/is
will be
estis
estas
estos
10thatke
sheŝi


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_Esperanto

So, Esperanto? Other? What words would you like to start with? I may just start trying to use the above 10 Esperanto words instead of the English.

I have recently been obsessing with HTML5, a new standard of a 19 year old language. I've been working on creating a schema for it - a formal machine readable definition of the language. I considered the possibility of doing this with English, and doing work on a grammar checker. I figured I would get very upset with the inconsistencies of English. Then I thought it would be fun to take the refinement process used on HTML and apply it to human language.

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