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It's not a conlang in the sense that anyone expects it to be taken up as an international auxiliary language. It's a conlang created for creative and artistic p
by c3534l 7y ago
It's not a conlang in the sense that anyone expects it to be taken up as an international auxiliary language. It's a conlang created for creative and artistic purposes. It's not meant for "wide adoption." It's meant for fun.
- sneak 7y agoThe cost/benefit ratio of investing the time to learn a new language goes up as the number of people with whom you can speak it increases. Even for fun.
- aidenn0 7y agonitpick, I think you mean the cost/benefit ratio goes down, as the cost remains fixed and the benefit increases?
- sneak 7y agois 1:10 to 1:500 not an increase in ratio? do i have it backwards?
- aidenn0 7y agoThe former is 0.1 the latter is 0.002
- sneak 7y agoMy cursory research on the topic suggests that while the ratio itself is a fraction, the "size" of the ratio refers to the inverse: the magnitude of difference between numerator and denominator, with 1:1 being the lowest ratio. This seems to be more of a linguistic thing than a math thing, which makes this thread on-topic again. :D
- aidenn0 7y agoIf we are going to talk linguistics, then saying "the cost/benefit ratio improves" is probably more clear than saying it gets larger or smaller then.
- monadic2 7y agoSure, but toki pona is also designed to work with a small subset of ascii, so the question remains.