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That is amazing and is melting my brain. Not sure how useful it can be for normal communication but would work great for signs and notices as you'd only need on

• samatman 5y ago
  I posted this as a fan of Interlingua, as the name makes clear this is a project from the same philosophy of constructing languages. The page on Orthography shows the sort of care I would expect from such a project: http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/orthography.html#standard_alphabet http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/orthography.html#standard_a... Your idea of signs and notices could be written in both the Latin and Cyrillic orthographies, and be more legible than not for more than 300 million people. Interlingua has similar advantages for anyone fluent in a Romance language.
  • Paul_S 5y ago
    Are there cyrilic using people who don't know the latin alphabet? I mean in reality, not in theory.
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    • justsomehnguy 5y ago
      If they didn't learn it - why should they? Sure there is a common application in Math/Algebra and Physics (if the person reading the sign even bothered to learn and didn't forgot everything the second they stepped out) and in product/brand names in the everyday life, but there is a difference between knowing the alphabet and having a vague idea how some letters are pronounced. Also there is enough of false friends (like `B` or `P`) to completely jumble the pronunciation and consequently fail the understanding.
      • Paul_S 5y ago
        I didn't know that. We have a strong support for Welsh speakers here but despite that the last person not capable of speaking English has already died many years ago. I imagined it might be the same for Russian people who don't know the latin alphabet since it's taught in school now and everybody goes to school nowadays.
        • justsomehnguy 5y ago
          Welsh and English are both use Latin alphabet so it is not quite the same idea. Russia has an almost mandatory foreign language in their education[0], which is a subject to availability I suppose - if there is no one who can teach the language in some remote village then nothing can be done, though with all that COVID measures I suppose the idea of remote learning is there. But again, it all depends on the quality of education, the abilities and the will of the student and not being forgotten. People who don't use another language would almost completely lose it in 3-7 years even if they had A+ for it in the school. Though it all more applies to an older generations, I think, because younger ones should be explicitly exposed to the Latin alphabet through the keyboards of their computers and smartphones, in Instagra/TikTok handles, email addresses and so on. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_State_Exam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_State_Exam
          • CRConrad 5y ago
            > Welsh and English are both use Latin alphabet so it is not quite the same idea. I am also notice[sic] stuff: > are both use
• gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
  From what I’ve read, the 3 Slavic families are mutually intelligible within a family, but not between. Edge cases exist eg in the borderlands between Poland and Belarus/Ukraine. So this could go a long way towards closer Slavic relations. In the communist days it was common for the northern slavs to vacation in Yugoslavia for example. Maybe a language like this could reignite a sense of unity, but divorced from Russian hegemony as it was in the past. Wishful thinking however.
  • lproven 5y ago
    Not very they're not. I've travelled in Poland with a bunch of Czechs, and in the Czech Republic and Serbia with Poles. I understood more than they did!