Re:Let's create the language of the internet
by ColinWright on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:01AM
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You have a number of problems ...
There is a short story by Orson Scott Card called "Unaccompanied Sonata". You can read the wikipedia plot summary[0], but in it a composer is prohibited from listening to other music so as to ensure that his ideas are pure, original, and non-derivative.
And that's well and good, but science and art both progress by pushing existing work further. It's all well and good to try to create things from scratch, but often that simply means making the same mistakes over and over, failing to learn from the experience of others, and getting no further simply because you run out of time and/or enthusiasm.
So there is value in going for this with a brand spanking new approach, fresh and unencumbered by previous work. But you are running the risk of re-inventing the wheel.
On the other hand you could look at existing attempts to create a single language for the world. It's been attempted before, and if you haven't heard of them it's a measure of just how successful they were. Or in this case, weren't.
So by all means go for it and see what you can achieve. But if you decide to see what other people have tried, here are a few links:
There is a short story by Orson Scott Card called "Unaccompanied Sonata". You can read the wikipedia plot summary[0], but in it a composer is prohibited from listening to other music so as to ensure that his ideas are pure, original, and non-derivative.
And that's well and good, but science and art both progress by pushing existing work further. It's all well and good to try to create things from scratch, but often that simply means making the same mistakes over and over, failing to learn from the experience of others, and getting no further simply because you run out of time and/or enthusiasm.
So there is value in going for this with a brand spanking new approach, fresh and unencumbered by previous work. But you are running the risk of re-inventing the wheel.
On the other hand you could look at existing attempts to create a single language for the world. It's been attempted before, and if you haven't heard of them it's a measure of just how successful they were. Or in this case, weren't.
So by all means go for it and see what you can achieve. But if you decide to see what other people have tried, here are a few links:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sapir+worf
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=universal+constructed+lang...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccompanied_Sonata