<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 6:03 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Someone mentioned language learning, triggering this thought that was <br>
recently on my mind:<br>
<br>
Suppose technology exists to make you quickly fluent in a language of <br>
your choice. (For even more counterfactual fun, the menu may include <br>
long-dead languages, provided that they were spoken by more than a <br>
Dunbar number.) <br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">...</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What are your first dozen choices? You may specify indirectly, like <br>
"the language understood by the greatest number of people in the New <br>
World in 1491".<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Math.</div><div dir="auto">Physics.</div><div dir="auto">Chemistry. </div><div dir="auto">Biology. </div><div dir="auto">Sign. </div><div dir="auto">IPv4, </div><div dir="auto">Enochin,</div><div dir="auto">Hebrew,</div><div dir="auto">Sanskrit, </div><div dir="auto">Latin,</div><div dir="auto">Greek,</div><div dir="auto">Japanese</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thoughts?</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div>