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• The Private Language Thesis and the types of languages

  Day eleven -- Question -- from "Trailsend" -- Mmm...well, I would respond, but...it seems you did not read my prior post, or if you did, you opted not to address any of the points I raised

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_Private_Language_Thesis_and_the_types_of_languages

• The attractor theorem and a universal language

  Day fourteen -- Question -- from "Ave94" -- Even if you could get billions of people to speak the same language, it wouldn't last. Soon it would diverge into separate dialects, then mutually unintelligible languages. After all

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_attractor_theorem_and_a_universal_language

• Test procedure for validating the PreBabel

  Day seven -- Question -- from "jal" -- quote from "sangi39" --I think if he has done what I think he's done, he is very very culturally biased, since even though the chinese character for say "wealth

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Test_procedure_for_validating_the_PreBabel

• About heavily inflecting or agglutinating languages

  Day sixty-four -- About heavily inflecting or agglutinating languages [quote="Khagan"] Question 1: Do you have any real test cases for PreBabel dealing with heavily inflecting or agglutinating languages?

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/About_heavily_inflecting_or_agglutinating_languages

• The choices of roots for PreBabel

  Day five -- Question -- from "vreizhig" -- Such a concept is only "important" to those who believe that spirits and heaven exist, and that concepts such as "pre-existence" are anything other than meaningless nonsense. you're

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_choices_of_roots_for_PreBabel

• More about the Esperanto

  Day twenty-two Question -- The strategy of constructing a universal language Answer -- Up to this point, I have mainly talked about PreBabel. As this is a conlanger site, I would like to talk about the

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/More_about_the_Esperanto

• About China's language policy

  Day forty-eight -- about China's language policy [quote from Trailsend] with Tienzen's description of hierarchy in the "Life" universe, by which presumably he means "biological." From a biological standpoint, as Svid points out

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/About_China's_language_policy

• A new linguistic paradigm

  The new Paradigm of Linguistics copyright © February 2009 by Tienzen (Jeh-Tween) Gong The Old Paradigm The old paradigm of linguistics has four unstated premises:* Premise 1 -- The mother tongue is acquired naturally, as

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/A_new_linguistic_paradigm

• PreBabel Wiki

  New pages --- The true Universal Language

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/PreBabel_Wiki

• Can PreBabel (language x) be learned easier than the language x itself?

  Day twenty-four -- Can PreBabel (language x) be learned easier than the language x itself? question -- from "Trailsend" -- I'm sorry if my argument appeared hidden, tienzen. I shall attempt to clarify. Firstly, I'm

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Can_PreBabel_(language_x)_be_learned_easier_than_the_lang

• About Chinese Etymology

  Day fifty-nine -- about Chinese Etymology [quote from Khagan] Do you plan to create a version of your website that uses unicode for displaying the PreBabel/Chinese characters (are they all regular/existent Hanzi characters

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/About_Chinese_Etymology

• PreBabel logic a, b and c

  Day twenty-three -- Sould PreBabel words be intuitive? And, the PreBabel a, b and c. Question -- from "imploder" -- I think this post of Trailsend is asking the right questions and pointing to clear flaws in

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/PreBabel_logic_a,_b_and_c

• Phonological reconstruction vs PreBabel (Chinese)

  Day thirty-five -- phonological reconstruction vs PreBabel (Chinese). Question -- from "sangi39" -- A statistic you seem to miss again and again is that using phonological reconstruction of older forms of the Chinese languages, it can be

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Phonological_reconstruction_vs_PreBabel_(Chinese)

• Published works on PreBabel (Chinese)

  Day thirty-seven -- Published works on PreBabel (Chinese). Question -- from "sangi39" -- As a final critique of your work, though, (following the structure of other critiques I have read and written)...... rather than a constructed purely

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Published_works_on_PreBabel_(Chinese)

• Summary of constructed linguistic universe

  Day fifty-five -- Summary of constructed linguistic universe [quote from sangi39] The formatting of this forum leaves the long list of "equations" provided across the last 2-3 pages disjointed to the point where some

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Summary_of_constructed_linguistic_universe

• The history of finding the universal language root word set

  Day four -- Question -- from "porpleafreet" -- just PLEASE give a straight answer on why you have so many ridiculous and unnecessary roots. this issue has been raised multiple times on every page, and so far, you

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_history_of_finding_the_universal_language_root_word_s

• The criteria for a universal language

  Day three -- Question -- from"Trailsend" --Mmm...well, I would respond, but...it seems you did not read my prior post, or if you did, you opted not to address any of the points I raised

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_criteria_for_a_universal_language

• More of traditional Chinese etymology vs PreBabel (Chinese)

  Day thirty-eight -- more of traditional Chinese etymology vs PreBabel (Chinese). From Tienzen Gong: With two PreBabels, PreBabel (English) and PreBabel (Chinese), we, now, can revisit the issue of universal language with a bird-eye

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/More_of_traditional_Chinese_etymology_vs_PreBabel_(Chines

• The Universal Language

  The universal language was either a myth (story of Babel), a self proclamation because of the political and economical supremacy (such as, Latin, Arabic, Chinese or English). If a universal language is ever possible, it

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_Universal_Language

• Isomorphism of all natural languages

  Day nine -- Question -- from "Trailsend" -- Let A and B be the respective sets of lexemes of two distinct languages. Let X be a universal language as described in i, and let X(Y) be the

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Isomorphism_of_all_natural_languages

• The first constructed language, the Lii character set

  Day thirty-four -- the first constructed language, the Lii character set. Question -- from "sangi39" --The "revolution" in the Chinese script in c. 220BC was an attempt at the standardization of the Chinese script under the

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/The_first_constructed_language,_the_Lii_character_set

• PB root word set is invented, not discovered

  Day ten -- Question -- "sangi39" -- So, it seems the PB radical system is based really more loosely on Chinese radicals, taking into account more spiritual interpretations of some radicals and reworking others into less complex radicals

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/PB_root_word_set_is_invented,_not_discovered

• Types of conlang and more on traditional Chinese etymology vs PreBabel (Chinese)

  Day forty -- Types of conlang and more on traditional Chinese etymology vs PreBabel (Chinese). From Tienzen Gong: There are, at least, two types of conlang. 1. Verbal centered with the written as the carrier. 2

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_conlang_and_more_on_traditional_Chinese_etymolog

• More about intuitiveness

  Day twenty-eight -- more about intuitiveness. Question -- from "Trailsend" -- 1. Why is (man, below) "foot" and not "leg"? 2. I did not find your encoding of the English word "at" to provide me with a

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/More_about_intuitiveness

• Construced linguistic universe (II)

  Day forty-nine -- Construced linguistic universe (II) From Tienzen: After the demarcation of a domain, we, now, can and need to construct the internal structure of this domain. That is, we need to introduce some

  https://prebabel.fandom.com/wiki/Construced_linguistic_universe_(II)