It sounds like you were trying to construct an a-priori conlang, in which the meaning of any word could be determined from its spelling, because the spelling is sufficient to give the word exact coordinates on a concept graph of some sort. I thought about this approach some time ago, but was never able to find a non-arbitrary concept graph to use, or a system of word formation that didn’t create overly long or unpronounceable words.
I was originally thinking about including non-ascii characters, but eventually compromised on retaining English capitals instead. The biggest problem that any conlang faces is getting people to use it, and anything that makes that more difficult, such as requiring changes to the standard American keyboard, needs to be avoided unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Hi,
I’m a middle-aged computer scientist/philosopher, who specialized in artificial intelligence and machine learning back in the stone age when I was getting my degrees. Since then I’ve done a bit of work in probabilistic simulations and biologically inspired methods of problem solving, mostly for industry. I’ve recently finished writing a book about politics, although God knows if I’ll ever sell a copy. Now I’m into a bit of everything. Politics. Economics.
I came here looking for input into a conlang project that I’m working on. Basically it involves the old Sapir-Whorf/Eprime/Loglan dream of creating a language that’s better suited for rational cognition than English, and I’m looking for linguistic mechanisms that might aid in this and that need to be built in from the bottom up (since surface mechanisms can be added later). I already know of the three conlangs mentioned above, although I don’t speak them, so I’m looking for ideas that aren’t contained therein, or that if they are might have been missed by a person without a deep knowledge of the languages. I did a search of the archives here and saw some discussion around this general topic, but nothing of immediate use, although I could easily have missed something.
All ideas welcome.