[ExI] language lust

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 6:03 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Someone mentioned language learning, triggering this thought that was
> recently on my mind:
>
> Suppose technology exists to make you quickly fluent in a language of
> your choice.  (For even more counterfactual fun, the menu may include
> long-dead languages, provided that they were spoken by more than a
> Dunbar number.)
>
...

> What are your first dozen choices?  You may specify indirectly, like
> "the language understood by the greatest number of people in the New
> World in 1491".
>

Math.
Physics.
Chemistry.
Biology.
Sign.
IPv4,
Enochin,
Hebrew,
Sanskrit,
Latin,
Greek,
Japanese

I'm assuming by "fluent" you grant that my universe contains the entire
context of these protocols for information exchange,  and that I am fully
aware if how/ why that protocol exists and its use in the universe.

I didn't think if be able to list a whole dozen, but i think the universe
containing those 12 contexts is sufficiently complex to be thoroughly
interesting.

Thoughts?

>
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