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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on The Up-Goer Five Game: Explaining hard ideas with simple words - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 September 2013 04:45:51PM 0 points [-]

Reminds me of the E minmal language http://www.ebtx.com/lang/readme2.htm which uses only 300 words including prepositions and tenses, inflections etc. (all words at http://www.ebtx.com/lang/eminfrm.htm ). These 300 are meant to exhaustively decompose most language, physical and everyday concepts down to - well - a minimum.

The first paragraph of the prisoners dilemma (FREPOHU HAAPOZ) might be

VI DILO DU PLAEM PLAL. VIZ CHAAN KRAAN MO ROL. DIBRA VIZ NAA CHON DIER DEPO HUEV VEN MO ROL.