Improving human language

[darxus]

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.

	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.

Comments

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

But... differences in and among languages are so interesting!

[agnosticoracle.livejournal.com]

If god didn't intend us to speak English why did he write the bible in it!!!

[moonshadow.livejournal.com]

In general, I think this is cool, though English is becoming a pretty standard language in many parts of the world. And also I don't really like Esperanto. :P Maybe a bit too logical for me. Not poetic enough for an English major.