Linguistics

What is the ideal language?

The natural development of language hasn't optimized it for learnability or understandability. For example, many words in english add ed to indicate past tense. However there are many exceptions to this rule. For example the past tense of run isn't runed, it's ran. There are many examples of exceptions to the rule that make learnability more difficult. Therefore, a language that's optimized for learnability and usability makes sense. This will never come about organically or naturally. It must be an intentional effort. The metric system was agreed upon for obvious reasons, ease of communication through an agreed common language is even more obviously desireable.

• Requirements:
• Constructed language - (sometimes called a conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised or invented.
• Planned language - purposefully designed, explicitly constructed, the result of deliberate controlling intervention. Words crafted by conscious decision.
• Phonlolgy
• Lexography
  • Words have roots that are built upon. If you know the root words you can intuit the meaning of words you've never seen before.
• Grammar
  • Each letter represents one and only one sound.
  • No accent markings.
• Other:
  No gendered words.
  “I” before “E” except after “C.” There would be no exceptions, i always before e.
  Benjerman Franklins letter changes would go in. Replace c with s and k, make a new letter for th, etc.
  Don't capitalize the pronoun I.
  dough,’ ‘tough,’ and ‘bough’ all have the exact spelling but are pronounced differently. One letter one sound, one spelling, one pronunciation, this would eliminate dialects as well.
  Idioms, I'm not sure how to deal with idioms. Perhaps by creating a new word in the vocabulary for every one and defining the word and the idiom together? Not sure.
  Not sure if it's possible or desireable but maybe try to eliminate double meanings. One word, one meaning, maybe add to the vocabulary until every different meaning for every different word is captured. This would be a lot easier if all words were compunds of other roots, just tack on another layer of roots to get as specific as you like.
  You would “see a film” or “watch television,” but you would never “see a television.” Another example is when you say, “I received a gift,” you don’t say, “I welcomed a gift.”
  One word one meaning would eliminate the misuse of synonyms. Maybe it would eliminate synonyms entirely.
  I want ease of use, learnability, understandability, and intuitiveness. I don't want to reduce the amount of meaning that can be captured. So the aim isn't to eliminate words. It would be nice to have 80% or so of the language in an easy to learn form, maybe letting the remaining 20% be hyper specific and nuanced.
  One letter one sound eliminates homophones.
  Emphasis is a difficult nut to crack. The only way I can see is if you eliminate brevaty.
  Basic english, special english, learning english, have limited vocabularies and try not to use idioms. I think an ideal language would have all of the words of learning english as root words and all other words would be compounds of those words. Then maybe add more roots if something is impossible or nonsensical to make out of compounds of those root words.
  Languages that use a lot of compund words are known as an agglutinative languages.

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