Now: Simple English, limited to a 1,000 word vocabulary.
Short term: Esperanto.
Long term: Lajban.
Now: Simple English
+ | English is currently the international language. |
+ | Restricting your vocabulary to the (~1,000) most common words will increase your potential audience. |
- | English sucks - much inconsistency and vagueness. |
- | No flag. |
Short Term: Esperanto
+ | Most commonly used synthetic language. |
+ | Designed to be easy to learn. |
+ | Cool flag. |
Long Term: Lojban
If I could get all mankind to speak any one language
+ | Freaking awesome. |
+ | Designed on the theory that your spoken langauge limits the way you think (to reduce those limits). |
+ | Greater means of expression. |
+ | No irregularities or ambiguities in spelling or grammar. |
+ | All roots are computer generated from an analysis of the similarities between the equivalent roots in the six most common languages, and five letters long. |
+ | Reminds me of LISP: "LISP is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot." - ESR |
- | Simplicity was not a design goal. |
- | Mostly spoken by people who already speak English and Esperanto. Website is only in English. Learning aids need to be translated to more languages. |
- | Lame flag. |
Wikipedia content pages
Simple English | 54,437 |
Esperanto | 116,329 |
Lojban | 950 |
Hours to develop comparable ability
Language | Hours |
German | 2,000 |
English | 1,500 |
Italian | 1,000 |
Esperanto | 150 |
Lernu.net - lots of resources for learning Esperanto.
Lojban.org
lojban
"No language is worth learning that does not affect the way you think."
I can see learning more languages primarily so I can translate the Lojban learning aids to those languages.
I still need to implement relax ng style <choice> for my HTML5 schema.
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perhaps Klingon!
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