I'm tempted to dismiss it as a product of hollow mental gymnastics, even though I admire the amount of effort put into it. Properly designed languages start wi

I'm tempted to dismiss it as a product of hollow mental gymnastics, even though I admire the amount of effort put into it. Properly designed languages start with the careful choice of letters that simultaneously represent important ideas. For example, the Greek alpha is a circle and cross - a well known, even fundamental, symbol that can be understood by any sufficiently advanced nation, even if they live in another galaxy. Same for the capital alpha or A - the upward facing double triangle, another famous symbol of an important idea. Tau, O, I, X and so on follow the same rules. Once the set of symbols is chosen, they are assigned numbers, or an order. Words are ordered sequences of numbers represented by letters. In order to name a thing, it's assigned a number, sometimes randomly, sometimes based on its properties, and that number is encoded in a word with a certain traditional encoding scheme. This is similar to hexadecimal encoding: "a" means 10, with a positional scheme to encode bigger numbers. The advantage of this approach is that knowledge of the scheme allows to read, at least partially, unknown languages. For example, if you see YHNFIOI, you may not know the word, but if you know the alphabet, you can decode the word into e.g. 765. The number ambiguous, but using the first letter Y and the traditional interpretation of this symbol as a cue, you can correctly guess that the word means "mountain".