elless

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by elless 5y ago
If you're up for some reading, I can highly recommend Wierzbicka's Imprisoned in English which addresses most of the examples you've mentioned https://www.amazon.com/Imprisoned-English-Hazards-Default-La...
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by elless 5y ago
Thank you! And yes, I agree with what you've said about measurements. Normally we would accompany something like "5 meters" with a real world comparison, which doesn't have to be perfect, but gives a point of reference.
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by elless 5y ago
Our main site is https://www.nsm-approach.net which we update with projects as they are done, so this would be the best place to watch. The project with the most translations (including Spanish) is the "Seven Essential Mess
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by elless 5y ago
Thinking of minimal languages as 'simpler' might not be the best way to think about it. The words are simpler words, but we hope to still express the complexity of the concept, while staying as close as possible to cross-translata
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by elless 5y ago
Minimal language translators are in the works, and workshops happen every so often. More are planned, hosted through Griffith University, so keep an eye on the original link. I think minimal languages are more like the general coding concep
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by elless 5y ago
Have a look at www.learnthesewordsfirst.com - dictionary built in layers based on this concept, going up to the Longman dictionary.
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by elless 5y ago
Weirdly, it's the people producing the language that seem to have this hangup. The people we've surveyed who are reading and listening to it, love it.
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by elless 5y ago
We're working on doing this as much as we can. There are projects in Danish, Finnish, English, Mandarin, Spanish, and smaller projects in other languages happening at the moment. Someone in Denmark has already done "The Ugly Duckl
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by elless 5y ago
Yes! We think that minimal languages can be used for this. We're trying to identify now what that core 300-ish words is across as many languages as we can, and some of us are promoting it as a potential core for language learning. We a
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by elless 5y ago
Yep, exactly this.
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by elless 5y ago
Hey! I'm one of the researchers that work on this topic. We think one of the powerful things about minimal languages is that they help people to think more clearly about what they want to say. Our main goal is the cross-translatability