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Imho if you design a new language it should use a simple and widely compatible script. Why try to constrain creativity by requiring that new things obey old wa
by jodrellblank 7y ago
Imho if you design a new language it should use a simple and widely compatible script.
Why try to constrain creativity by requiring that new things obey old ways? New things should be different, or allowed to be different, or what's the point in them at all?
They could've used combinations of two letters rather than diacritics if they needed this for diverse sound
"They" (Zamenhof, the original creator) did that, it exists. Twice over, as the h-system he proposed in 1888 in the first year or two of Esperanto, and as the x-system: https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-sistemo https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-sistemo and the https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-sistemo https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-sistemo
The h-system doesn't stand out and risks clashing with valid uses, and makes weird combinations like Hh, but it is the "official" one; the x-system stands out and doesn't clash, so can be automatically converted by computer, but looks awful.