linguistics
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Background: Learning a foreign language can be time-consuming, primarily due to the large number of words that need to be memorized. Some attempts have been made to make this process easier by making a “common” second language that everyone could learn (the most well-known of these is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto). This would, in theory, fix the…
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Background: The part of speech known as the “verb”: not strictly necessary! A language without the verb: still technically functional! English vocabulary: already quite large (perhaps excessively large). And obviously fewer words: easier language. Proposal: So for the sake of both children and foreign language students of English, an obvious plan: verbless English! Some examples:…
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The issue: Many computers are unable to handle letters that don’t fall into the set of Latin characters used by English. Even though the Unicode standard has greatly improved multi-character-set accessibility, problems still arise: A character might not exist in a chosen font. For example, “Egyptian Hieroglyph of a bird catching a fish” is probably…
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