For a few years now, I’ve been working on a project to build an artificial language. I strongly suspect that the future of the kind of communication that goes on here, will belong to an artificial language. English didn’t evolve for people like us. For our purpose, it’s a cumbersome piece of shit, rife with a bunch of fallacies built directly into its engine. And I assume it’s the same way with all the other ones. For us, they’re sick to the core.
But I should stress that I don’t think the future will belong to any kind of word language (whether natural or artificial). English is a word language, Lojban is a word language, etc. Or at least I don’t think the whole future will belong to one. We must free ourselves from the word paradigm. When somebody says “language”, most people think words. But why? Why not think pictures? Why not diagrams?
For a few years now, I’ve been working on a project to build an artificial language. I strongly suspect that the future of the kind of communication that goes on here, will belong to an artificial language. English didn’t evolve for people like us. For our purpose, it’s a cumbersome piece of shit, rife with a bunch of fallacies built directly into its engine. And I assume it’s the same way with all the other ones. For us, they’re sick to the core.
But I should stress that I don’t think the future will belong to any kind of word language (whether natural or artificial). English is a word language, Lojban is a word language, etc. Or at least I don’t think the whole future will belong to one. We must free ourselves from the word paradigm. When somebody says “language”, most people think words. But why? Why not think pictures? Why not diagrams?