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I'm tired of all the syntax inconsistencies with English, what language should I use for my next project?
by candiddevmike 3y ago
I'm tired of all the syntax inconsistencies with English, what language should I use for my next project?
- FFP999 3y agoEsperanto, some would say, but others would then argue that you'll have a lot of trouble finding developers.
- Loughla 3y agoHow has their not been a successful synthetic language? It seems like something that would occur on the internet.
- jbaber 3y agoThere's always some de facto lingua franca already around.
- interestica 3y agoKinda related. Hangul (the Korean writing/character system) was created in 1443 to solve a bunch of problems related to competing adapted character systems. > the fourth king of the Joseon dynasty, Sejong the Great, personally created and promulgated a new alphabet. > The Korean alphabet was designed so that people with little education could learn to read and write. A popular saying about the alphabet is, "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; even a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#History
- rtpg 3y agolearning a language is hard. Unlike with PLs, learning a language in a vacuum for your own use is ... pretty difficult and hard to apply? And on top of that there are many "good enough" solutions. English has a bunch of weird and confusing issues. But "English as a second language" is at least a variant that is stripped down, with far less weird idioms, and lets you get points across to people. "Correct" pronunciation (whatever that's worth) is also optional. Hard to beat! I thought Esperanto did have some success though! And FWIW I think many language learning communities can thrive on a bunch of people using their second language. So maybe if someone makes a fun synthetic language it can totally work!
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- em-bee 3y agoesperanto is very easy to learn though. so if you can't find developer who speak fluent english, then teaching them esperanto is still faster than getting them to improve their english.
- paulddraper 3y agoThis being HN..... Rust, obviously
- whycome 3y agoIt's open source. If you have problems, you're free to contribute or suggest changes.
- lr4444lr 3y agoLatin. It's the only other language with similar levels of field-tested universal compatibility.
- whycome 3y agoDisagree -- that's just a typical romantic view of that language. There's a reason Latin's been forked so many times.
- mwcremer 3y agoC'mon, nobody speaks Latin per se these days.
- wombatpm 3y agoBut Latin has weird thing like apparatus and apparatus (long u) because it has been hopelessly corrupt by greek
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- jerf 3y agoLojban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
- candiddevmike 3y agoThis looks really interesting, thank you for sharing.
- euroderf 3y agoThe reliance on Chinese wordstock seems silly. Make a blend of Latin and Old Norse / Proto-Germanic / Icelandic, and you might have something surprisingly accessible for most speakers of descendants of PIE.
- ziml77 3y agoAny language that no one uses. As soon as spoken language is actually used by people who aren't laser focused on ensuring that they don't misuse words or relax pronunciations, the meanings of words will shift and accents will form. People will also invent slang, as people are naturally inclined to do, and some of that slang will stick around in common speech and be accepted as regular words.