Re: OT: babel and english
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 21, 2001, 17:46 |
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>On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Samuel Rivier wrote:
>
> > It would be cool if we could have a very very very
> > easy auxlang here- it would attract a very diverse
> > crowd
>
>I nominate "Uk". Uk is, without a doubt, the world's simplist auxlang.
>It contains two, and only two, phonemes. /@/ and /k/, which are only
>permitted to form the word /@k/. All words are uk. All ideas are uk.
>Indeed, all auxlang is uk. Uk has the additional feature of distilling
>the purest essence of the IAL, that being stupidity, into its most
>concentrated form.
>
>As the Manifesto of Uk (or to give it it's uk title: uk) says:
>
>
>uk
>uk uk
>uk uk uk uk uk uk
>uk
Hey! You failed to mention what phones are acceptable for /@/ and /k/! I
assume that practically any vowel'd do for /@/, but on behalf on all lazy
people I sincerely hope that you don't have any ideas that /k/ has to be
tense or a stop!
Moreover, I demand that you introduce a zero phoneme, so we lazy people can
fail to respond in a grammatically correct way. It'd also be perfect for
discussion IALs.
Andreas
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