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Comment author: ChristianKl 15 September 2014 04:17:31PM 1 point [-]

What made you decide for E-minimal? Esperanto is the most commonly used constructed language and even if you don't like it for many sloppy design issues, Interlingua seems well designed and has actual speaker and therefore even it's own Wikipedia.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 15 September 2014 06:42:15PM 1 point [-]

My aim is not the learn a spoken language and to use it for significant communication. e-minimal is interesting precisely because of its minimalistic and compositional nature. Building on 'primitives' founded in science.

I have an interest in computer linguistics and having a toy language exposes some of the difficulties of aquiring a language more clearly than a real natural language does.

I don't want to invest lots of days in learning a real language. E-minmal being small but sufficiently complete allowed me to get away with minimal effort.