How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language (2015)

Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by neogodless on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:03PM (#14197995)

I was surprised that https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/ was not mentioned, but then again, he uses _a thousand_ words in his book!

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Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by jerryszczerry on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @08:37PM (#14199545)

I think 1000 is a more realistic estimate of how much words you need in a language, than 100.

Toki pona is nice in concept, but too restrictive in practice.

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Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language... by johan_larson on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:31AM (#14201681)

Voice of America, the international radio service, uses a restricted subset of English with about 1500 words and manages to sound natural rather than baby-talky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_English

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