[extropy-chat] i-language again

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I propose an international language of sorts, or
> rather an
> international language structure.

Standard problem: how do you get people to start
speaking it - especially if, as you state, it is for a
limited purpose only?  What value is there that is so
great, it would be worth learning and using a language
that few others use?

Perhaps if there were computers that spoke only this
tongue, but could use it to grok a lot more than
current computer-communication languages...but that
would require the programs to be out there, with a
large vocabulary, before one could seriously
popularize this.

> Then any speaker of any language would assign words
> from
> her own language to correspond with each word in the
> list.

What if there are no, or several, native words for
what has been provided for the definition of a meta
word?