English vs. Esperanto

Dan murpsoft at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 3 07:59:55 PDT 2007


Kevin Bealer Wrote:
> A few steps behind Klingon, I would expect.
> 
> But (slightly more) seriously, Esperanto seems like a cautionary tale 
> for those who would design computer (and other synthetic) languages,
> in that it tried to solve a compatibility problem without actually
> motivating anyone to adopt it in any material way.  It has aesthetics
> but no special 'killer features'.
> 
> Now, if esperanto had array slicing...

Hehe.  yeah, I took Linguistics in the first part of university and got rather involved in language theory.  I thought it was an excellent exercise creating an isolating morphology, VSO, CV, with semantic/phonetic enhancements..

Ultimately though, spoken language will be irrelevant with the implementation of the DNI - so inventing a spoken language that won't be spoken is folly.

DNI has killer features.  Like array slicing.  : )



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