How to develop a language

[Salik]

why do u want to develop a new lang apart from existing words?

My experiment will highlight that despite technological developments man as entity is same as of day one. Grown up in isolation he will behave like caveman. He will think the Earth is stationary and the Sun is moving.

I want to unlock the knowledge of billions of years that is saved in the DNA. Referring 'Lucy'. So that a child doesn't have to start from 'A for Apple' and 'B for butterfly'.

 

[Salik]

Your experiment will produce a very primitive type of language. Languages we use today are of an advanced form. If you want to know how old languages were like take a look at chinese language. It has an older form than today's languages. In chinese there are no letters. Symbols represent words. The languages your isolated babies will make will have different single sounds for whole sentences in our languages. Like how 'ouch' stands for 'I am in pain.'

Afterall they're human, why would they stop at 'ouch' for 'I am in pain'. They'll go for poetry and litrature and everything.

Secondly a letter is basically a simble. So every language is based on symbols, some symbols may be more precise and denote a meaning.

 

[NP-complete]

Afterall they're human, why would they stop at 'ouch' for 'I am in pain'. They'll go for poetry and litrature and everything.

Secondly a letter is basically a simble. So every language is based on symbles. Some symbles may be more precise and denote a meaning.

You didnt understand. Symbols in english and urdu are meaningless letters. They join together to form words. In chinese symbols are words. In an even older language symbols will be sentences.
Some common chinese symbols, also called characters, and the words they represent:

 

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Afterall they're human, why would they stop at 'ouch' for 'I am in pain'. They'll go for poetry and litrature and everything.

Secondly a letter is basically a simble. So every language is based on symbols, some symbols may be more precise and denote a meaning.

If such a language is developed, will it catch on?

 

[Salik]

You didnt understand. Symbols in english and urdu are meaningless letters. They join together to form words. In chinese symbols are words. In an even older language symbols will be sentences.
Some common chinese symbols, also called characters, and the words they represent:

Why would the babies only develop chinese like language and not Sanskrit or Hebrew like language?

If such a language is developed, will it catch on?

Where's chinese language today. There're key pads and even space station in this language.

 

[NP-complete]

Why would the babies only develop chinese like language and not Sanskrit or Hebrew like language?

Let ditch this debate. But i must point out that this experiment will be inhumane. With a very restricted language their life will be of a very poor quality. They would fight among themselves and kill each other. If you have read 'Lord of the Files' you can appreciate that the only reason two boys got killed was because those school kids lacked vocabulary. If they had known words like savage, barbarian, civilized, reconciliation, fraternity, optimization, harmony, tranquility, etc, etc they would not have become savages. If they had known words for how they behaved, they wouldve also had an aversion for that behaviour.

 

[Salik]

Let ditch this debate. But i must point out that this experiment will be inhumane. With a very restricted language their life will be of a very poor quality. They would fight among themselves and kill each other. If you have read 'Lord of the Files' you can appreciate that the only reason two boys got killed was because those school kids lacked vocabulary. If they had known words like savage, barbarian, civilized, reconciliation, fraternity, optimization, harmony, tranquility, etc, etc they would not have become savages. If they had known words for how they behaved, they wouldve also had an aversion for that behaviour.

Howcome this experiment is inhumane? Every time you create a world you face same challenges. Or first time creation was an exception?

I don't agree that lack of vocabulary makes you savage. If it was so then every deaf was a barbarian.

You're putting question mark on human nature. Human nature is basically inclined towards love and care.

I'm more concerned about how will the babies fight diseases. Or how did they fought billions of years ago. Will they start from herbs. Or every creation is followed by an enlightened person viz avatar/masiha/prophet. Doctor in my experiment???

 

[Ragnar]

Very simple.. Smoke hash and sing the alphabet song..

 

[Salik]

Symbols in english and urdu are meaningless letters. They join together to form words.

For the correction please, symbols in english and urdu aren't meaningless letters actually. Each and every letter used to have a meaning, only that most of them were lost with the time and we knew very little about them. One example;