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Subject: Re: my thoughts on universal language
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:52:04 +0200
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Uzytkownik "Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> napisal w wiadomosci
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> Kevin Albrecht wrote:
>
> > This got me thinking, in the opinion of you guys, what language (or
> > languages) have the simplest syntax in the world? It seems to me that
an
> > aritificial language based on that syntax would be optimal.
>
> Of the real languages I would say Tolomako (or any of its many close
> relatives, I suppose). But since hardly anyone knows them, I'll settle
> for Classical Chinese.
>
> Of the constructed languages, I'd say my extraterrestrial invention,
> Beddy-Byes, which has only (count'em) ONE rule. The only problem is
> that I designed it to be completely unmanageable for human beings.
> But if you replace "centre-embedding" by, say, "suffixing" (or
> "prefixing") you probably have the simplest imaginable syntax.
>
> NB. Tolomako is spoken on the island of Espiritu Santo, in Vanuatu.
> Beddy-Byes is "spoken" by the sentient squid-like aliens who
> live in the methane oceans of the fifth planet of Deneb.
Admit it, they farted that methane, didn't they?
Uncle Davey
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