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A long time ago I tried to learn Esperanto well enough to read in it. I quit, but I was still intrigued. Given events in the last 18 months, instead of a const
by mark_l_watson 3y ago
A long time ago I tried to learn Esperanto well enough to read in it. I quit, but I was still intrigued.
Given events in the last 18 months, instead of a constructed language like Lojban or Esperanto I would vote for a small subset of English with a limited grammar and vocabulary - with tools to enforce both vocabulary and simplified grammar.
Why the change in opinion? It turns out that English works better than many other languages for text embeddings and generally working with Large Language Models. A simplified version of English, perhaps called ‘glish’ would be easy for English speakers to pick up and use with good automatic writing and editing tools. Advantages: make it easier for AI and for casual English users around the world.
- Izkata 3y agoMaybe start with the Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- soonix 3y agoLooks like you think about "Basic English" which is a bit more formalized than Wikipedia's "Simple English" - see https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English (and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English )