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Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by avn2109 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @01:27PM (#11432409)
>> "lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes"

They already spent a bunch of time and effort finding these phonemes to build Esperanto, right?

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Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by jodrellblank on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:14PM (#11436110)
No, see this criticism of Esperanto phonemes: http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/#b

Its choices are large, irregular, unclearly defined and basically Eastern Polish.

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Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by pgeorgi on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:21PM (#11432961)
Esperanto was designed to be partially understandable by people across Europe by lifting words from various languages liberally.

Lojban is designed to be well-defined on phonemes, but that still only works when knowing its (rather simple) pronunciation rules.

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Re:WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete by stormbrew on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @01:43PM (#11432593)
That would probably still be a very eurocentric set of phonemes, so probably would not really be suitable for the modern multilingual world, I would think.
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