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How has their not been a successful synthetic language? It seems like something that would occur on the internet.

• jbaber 3y ago
  There's always some de facto lingua franca already around.
• interestica 3y ago
  Kinda 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 ago
  learning 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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