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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other Oct 7

What are we talking about? Human or spoken languages? Many human languages are in danger of extinction (Unesco estimates that at least a half of the world's 6,500 spoken languages will disappear within the next 100 years) and AFAIK a language needs circa 100 years to emerge, so it will not be in my time. Sign language? It’s possible, if the deaf community recognizes they need a new language. Programming languages for AI? That’s not my field at all…

Edith van der Have
Christine Andersen
Natalia Pedrosa
Aitor Salaberria
 
Lingua 5B
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New languages? Oct 7

New languages, near future? Don’t think so, if we’re talking about human languages.

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Kevin Fulton
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United States
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German to English
Not likely Oct 7

There's not much demand for translators of invented languages such as Esperanto or Volapük. Learning such languages is in the realm of hobbyists, not people wanting to make a living at it.

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Natalia Pedrosa
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Denis Fesik
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How about Runglish, Chinglish, Finglish, Hunglish? Oct 7

And all the rest of them. Translators from all over the world are working right now to create new languages. These new languages are usually more primitive than old ones because a translator doesn't want to think hard. Maybe some proz here have never encountered the countless number of pearls of translated language that's inspiring me to write this post, but I sure know what I'm talking about. Our consumer society wants more consumers. Consumers have to be lazy. There's a non-scientific theory c... See more
And all the rest of them. Translators from all over the world are working right now to create new languages. These new languages are usually more primitive than old ones because a translator doesn't want to think hard. Maybe some proz here have never encountered the countless number of pearls of translated language that's inspiring me to write this post, but I sure know what I'm talking about. Our consumer society wants more consumers. Consumers have to be lazy. There's a non-scientific theory created by Lev Gumilev that, while being impossible to verify or falsify, is really tempting to believe because it pretends to explain a lot of things all at once. A theory on passionarians. And then I once heard an interview with an adept of this theory, a major fraud from Russia's crazy nineties who'd done a lot of time in prison. One thing he said about passionarians (himself being one of them) was that they're the kind of people you don't want to have around. They are like a splinter in your eye, and there's nothing they can do to help it. They have too much of everything and can't contain it. Who wants more passionarians if we could have more vegetables instead? An interesting part of his interview was when he spoke about going on a hunger strike in prison. You are only supposed to do it if you are ready to either get what you want or die. He may have been quite a douche of a person, but I'd bet a lot of money he'd be as good as his word is he chose to go on a hunger strike

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Mario Chávez
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Klingon anyone? Oct 8

Like Esperanto, there are thousands of fans of the made-up Klingon language. Whether there are translations into human languages from Klingon, I have no idea.

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