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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.
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.
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.
English | Esperanto | |
---|---|---|
1 | the | la |
2 | and | kaj |
3 | of/from | de |
4 | I/me | mi |
5 | in/into | en |
6 | to/towards | al |
7 | no/not | ne |
8 | he | li |
9 | was am/are/is will be | estis estas estos |
10 | that | ke |
she | ŝi |
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.