Let's start a new language! Who wants to help?

Question

Recent social, political and economical developments have made it increasingly clear that an international language is necessary, to be studied and spoken throughout the entire world, in every city, in every home, in every family and group of friends. It is to have a vocabulary rich and powerful enough to express every feeling and reality that the human mind can experience and remember, and it is to have a grammar simple enough to leave no room for ambiguity whatsoever and to be easier to learn and to use, and its functions and methods easier to understand and to master, than any of the already existing languages. Its phonetic system is to make use of every sound of speech that a human can voluntarily produce, and yet it is to remain easy to learn. The language itself, ie the way it works, is to be fully understood by all speakers, thus minimizing errors and doubts.

How far do you agree with this view?
And if you agree, how would you contribute for the creation of such a language?

Answer 1

It's a lofty idea but it will take a long time. Longer, I think, than the human race has. However there are shortcuts. First off, you don't need to make it easy to learn. Children pick up language and language skills early and easily. This is going to sound arrogant coming from a native English speaker, but English is a native language in many countries through out the world it is the official language of business and aviation and probably a few more areas that I don't know about. I'm not suggesting we tell the rest of the world to either learn English or **** off, but it could make a good base. A good starting point. First off we'd have to simplify it by dropping ALL silent letters and/ or having one rule for creating long vowel sounds and nomore of this "by, buy or bye" crap if it's pronounced the same way then it's spelled the same way. Also, to make sure everyone is included we have to adopt some words from other languages. Sometimes we'll have to annex an English word for a non-English word just to show the rest of the world that we're willing to give a little. Lastly, We have to drop the idea of "Proper" English. If the point is understood then there's no need to correct someone who didn't say something the way you would've said it. Now, this will certainly be difficult for the current generations of non-English speakers to grasp, and the language itself will be akward but a couple generations down the line the whole system will evolve into perfection. Once the next generation gets a hold of it it'll start to evolve into exactly what the whole world needs it to be.

Answer 2

Attempts have been done before, the most notable example being Esperanto. Another, probably more well known example is Klingon, as used in Star Trek, which is actually based on liguistics and has a well defined grammatical structure. And you thought it was just gibberish.

Answer 3

Esperanto

Answer 4

1. yes yes u r rt.
2. Look up Esparanto on the web.
3. GBShaw started a fund trust to correct english spellings. easy IPS.
4. my uncle dr pradhan george has been crusading for 40yrs for a COMMON ROMAN ALPHABET MODIFIED ADAPTED PHONETICIZED FOR UNIVERSAL USAGE BY ALL ALL LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE. [ look at Roman alphabet adapted to Viet lang in 1884 by french priest]
5. u may think about this.
GOOOOD LUCK visionary!

Answer 5

Basagoric hulaf mquit. Votisfurh qon mijin wert. ttyl.

Answer 6

there already exists such a language - its called esperanto

Answer 7

Esperantoooo!!!