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I tried to learn lojban back in the day. I liked the phonetics, vocabulary and system in general, but it seemed an impossible task to remember the placeholder o

by leke 3y ago

I tried to learn lojban back in the day. I liked the phonetics, vocabulary and system in general, but it seemed an impossible task to remember the placeholder order of every single predicate. Maybe not so much of a struggle for an AI though. I still believe there will be an awesome international auxiliary language that the world will embrace, or rather those who wish to communicate with everyone will embrace. It may currently exist or might yet need to be invented. People are making new ones all the time.

mrtranscendence 3y ago
The dream of an international auxiliary language is an old one, yet none — of many — have ever caught on outside of niche hobbyists. It’s unclear to me what further advantages a conlang could have that would overcome the incumbency advantage of the dominant lingua francas. I don’t think eliminating syntactic ambiguity is really that exciting for people in general.