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Comment author: ChristianKl 30 April 2014 06:44:54PM 0 points [-]

I don't think that either Esperanto or Lojban is the perfect language. Expressing an idea in either of those languages usually takes 1.5 the amount of time as it does in English.

I think there room for a new constructed language that does things better.

Comment author: shminux 30 April 2014 08:08:57PM 1 point [-]

I don't think that either Esperanto or Lojban is the perfect language. Expressing an idea in either of those languages usually takes 1.5 the amount of time as it does in English.

In this case it would be a feature, not a bug.

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 May 2014 12:09:33AM 0 points [-]

If a unproductive language is what you want you could go for Toki Pona. It's even easier to teach than esperanto.

Comment author: shminux 01 May 2014 12:20:41AM 1 point [-]

The point would be the opposite: to make it hard but usable.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 May 2014 02:35:40AM *  1 point [-]

Latin it is! I'll bet some people won't enjoy the return of a world-spanning political authority communicating in a language no normal person knows though.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 May 2014 04:25:14AM *  2 points [-]

That's their problem.

Comment author: V_V 15 May 2014 07:26:21PM 0 points [-]

Although it sounds profound.

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