{"id":1182,"date":"2021-10-07T08:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2023-01-26T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:48:46","slug":"if-i-were-to-create-a-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"If I Were To Create A Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently learning Portuguese and Spanish. Both these languages (and all languages for that matter) have quarks. I wish it was easier to learn another language.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking if I were to create a language, I would get rid of the quarks. Here are some things I would consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No verb conjugation. I believe Chinese is the only language that has this.<\/li>\n<li>More than one word for &#8220;we&#8221;. How annoying is it in English when you have to ask who &#8220;we&#8221; is? There are some other languages that have more than one word for &#8220;we&#8221;. Frankly, &#8220;we&#8221; should be three words:\n<ul>\n<li>We inclusive you &#8211; Me, you, and others.<\/li>\n<li>We exclusive you &#8211; Me, others, but not you.<\/li>\n<li>We exclude others &#8211; Me and you only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There should probably be other variations to be the most specific.<\/li>\n<li>No ways to say one. It&#8217;s always the same. In English we have to say &#8220;one result.&#8221; If there is more than one result, we say &#8220;two results.&#8221; My language it wouldn&#8217;t depend on the number on if the noun is plural. So I guess no plurals. English sucks because the plurals make no sense. Houses not mouses. Goose not meese. (Check out @stage_door_johnny on TikTok for more!)<\/li>\n<li>Past tenses\/present tenses\/future tenses would be simpler. It&#8217;s crazy. The conjugation plus all the tenses. It&#8217;s too complicated. I&#8217;m not sure how to make the tense simpler, but I would want it to be so.<\/li>\n<li>No words that mean the same fucking thing over and over again. I get it. It&#8217;s cute. It shows your intelligence to know all these fancy words but come on. Let&#8217;s make it easier so it&#8217;s more inclusive.<\/li>\n<li>No repeated words. I don&#8217;t think English is that bad. Spanish not either. It took me a little while in the Duolingo tree to find the same word used different ways. Portuguese it was like three lessons: <em>Ela bota a bota<\/em> (She wears a boot.)<\/li>\n<li>Going off that idea, no words that sound the same. English is terrible with this: <em>Our ore or our oar<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>No crazy rules. In English we have a bunch of crazy rules and sometimes they don&#8217;t even apply (looking at you <em>I before E<\/em>). In Portuguese, OMG, so many crazy rules. If something is plural, it depends on what the ending letter is. (Same in English too but not THIS crazy.)<\/li>\n<li>I think it goes without saying but NO ROMATICS. Objects shouldn&#8217;t be masculine or feminine. Why is a dress masculine in Spanish\/Portuguese? Why is a window feminine?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously though. Life is hard enough. Let&#8217;s all create a simple language we can all learn and stop with this nonsense. It&#8217;s like Capitalism created these languages and each word had a lobby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently learning Portuguese and Spanish. Both these languages (and all languages for that matter) have quarks. I wish it was easier to learn another language. I keep thinking if I were to create a language, I would get rid of the quarks. Here are some things I would consider: No verb conjugation. 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