For anyone who hasn’t run into Ithkuil before, it’s basically an attempt at creating a language which is as precise and concise as possible: > an idealized la

For anyone who hasn’t run into Ithkuil before, it’s basically an attempt at creating a language which is as precise and concise as possible: > an idealized language whose aim is the highest possible degree of logic, efficiency, detail, and accuracy in cognitive expression via spoken human language, while minimizing the ambiguity, vagueness, illogic, redundancy, polysemy (multiple meanings) and overall arbitrariness that is seemingly ubiquitous in natural human language For instance, here is a sample of Ithkuil III (since I can’t seem to find any materials on Ithkuil IV), precisely describing Marcel Duchamp’s Nud descendant un escalier, No. 2: > Aukkras êqutta ogvëuļa tnou’elkwa pal-lši augwaikštülnàmbu. > ‘An imaginary representation of a nude woman in the midst of descending a staircase in a step-by-step series of tightly-integrated ambulatory bodily movements which combine into a three-dimensional wake behind her, forming a timeless, emergent whole to be considered intellectually, emotionally and aesthetically.’ [http://ithkuil.net/texts.html http://ithkuil.net/texts.html]