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While it sounds nice to me too (and neither am I a native English speaker), apparently there was a bit of misunderstanding in another comment, and possibly here too: I rather wonder about a hypothetical more efficient (and computing-oriented) writing system, not just/necessarily/only using monospace latin characters. It doesn't seem very realistic that something like that would happen (judging by the mess that are date formats and units of measurement, which seem much easier to fix), but observing the complexity that doesn't come from fundamental constraints, it's hard to not wonder about that.


Hawaiian has 16 Characters, Hangul was designed to be easy to learn, Lojban is based on Predicate logic.

What they all lack is reach, and thats the most important feature when it comes to a common tongue. (That and having a phonetical system ^^')




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