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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by zubairshaik on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:56PM (#36048174)
Where would you say Esperanto sits on the "natural" scale, since it's design goal is to be easy to learn and use as opposed to being highly compressed? As I wouldn't say its "[s]pelling, pronunciation, grammar, all shift around, and for all manner of reasons".
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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by TRiG_Ireland on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:20PM (#36050995)
Many children have acquired Esperanto naturally, as a first language, and that does seem to work without any problems.
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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by rerdavies on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:51PM (#36051311)
That seems like a very dangerous experiment to conduct on a child.
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Re:Ithkuil, the Most Complicated Language by pseudalopex on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:10PM (#36062683)
How? Did you think they meant only language?
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