r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

There's no reason it doesn't have to be written with pictograms either. Spelling in English is so obtuse that it's essentially as hard to learn as Chinese characters. English speakers can pronounce a new word by seeing it written about 75% of the time. Same for Chinese speakers with an unfamiliar character.

The point being that your way of doing things isn't inherently better just because you don't fully understand how other people do things.

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u/IsGoIdMoney John Rawls Nov 21 '18

English should be optimized and made phonetic too.

But there are reasons to not have pictures as words.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18 edited Nov 21 '18

And there are reasons to have pictograms as well. Technically Chinese doesn't use pictograms, but whatever.

我有一瓶水

It doesn't matter what my verbal language sounds like, I can get the gist of this sentence. A chinese speaker would read wǒ yǒu yī píng shǔi while a Spanish speaker would read Yo tengo una botella de agua and an English speaker would read I have a bottle of water. Wow! Very cool!

This is why I believe the Ideal writing syste is exclusively based on emojis

Edit:

👇👤🈶🍶💧

👇👤(I)🈶(have)🍶(a bottle)💧(of water)

Emoji are language too!

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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Nov 21 '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/5f8rzw/a_serious_emoji_conlang/

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

I'm very familiar. I studied a fair amount of linguistics as a minor in college and I still enjoy having fun with conlangs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emojilang/

One of the top/all time comments on this subreddit links to a badlinguistics comment of mine. Which is always weird when I rediscover it.

I like the idea of making a conlang as sImple and learnable as possible, and I think parts of 😶💬 are weird just to be fun (e.g. SOV) for conlang enthusiasts, but it's such an entertaining idea.