I know, but I can't even think about it without thinking of Katie Couric, which makes me want to punch everyone in the face.
What's the connection between Katie Couric and newspeak?
I know, but I can't even think about it without thinking of Katie Couric, which makes me want to punch everyone in the face.
This.The problem is that an imposed and constructed lingua franca for technical and non-everyday use isn't self-evidently a good idea.
I am asking what features would you like to have in it.
It seems to me the correct question would be "what useless and anachronistic features of other languages could be left out"?Keep in mind that this language would be more of a tool, something of a professional 'jargon' for diplomats, businessmen, scientists, philosophers, bureaucrats, politicians, etc. It is not supposed to sound very nice, feel "natural" and "smooth" (as these qualities are usually associated with irregularities), or to become a new language for poets and writers. It should be a practical instrument of communication, nothing more and nothing less.
Esperanto?
What Winner is proposing doesn't need to be poetic, so I think newspeak would od the job.
Why criticize inclusive and exclusive pronouns as not easy? If "easy" is your number one goal, why not eliminate plurality as a whole? Obviously your, as everyone else's definition of "easy" is usually just going to mean "as close to my native language as possible."
You know: "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
If a new international language was being constructed I would protest against it for slowly destroying oral culture in the advancement of simpler and more convenient way to tell each other to F off. I propose we destroy all traces of Esperanto and revert back to the ole languages.
How mighty a point you state. That CFC is in trouble for disagreeing with you.CFC is really in trouble if one of the few people who actually got the point is my sworn ideological enemy Too bad that newspeak has all these negative Orwellian connotations.
Oh please, this language would NEVER replace natural languages. It wouldn't be very nice or smooth, it would definitely not be well suited to ordinary inter-personal communication (just make the effort and try to count how many idioms and fixed collocations you use in a short conversation with a friend - and then try to imagine how the conversation would look like without them).
Easier, neutral and effective constructed language would DEFINITELY be useful. I am not saying it will take hold, but I think it should. It would be beneficial to everybody.
I swear Winner, you can be such a Kurva sometimes.