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I vowed that I would learn Latin but, as I am prone to ruining things by teaching them to myself, I am taking an online course next year.
Through my travels on the internet, however, I have come across another linguistic gem that I must explore: la lojban. (Lojban).
I'd suggest looking up info on it if you're interested. Basically it is a logically artificial language that was designed to be unambiguous in grammatical meaning. To use lojban.org's oft-quoted example in English, the phase "Time flies like an arrow." can be interpreted three separate ways (The command to time the meaning of "flies like an arrow"; Time "flies", or is quick, in relation to an arrow; or the object "time flies" has a predilection for an arrow). Lojban eliminates this ambiguity and other instances that arise through homophones, homonyms, etc.
The grammar structure is also interesting (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are treated the same, as brivla, where something can be described as "blue", one could say "a blue" to refer to a blue something) and logical.
The phonology is something I particularly love. It has a simple system of 6 vowels (a, e, i, o, u, y - y is never a consonant) and 17 consonants (the standard 20, without h, q, or w) where each letter has one specific pronunciation. There are a limited number of defined diphthongs (four rising and ten falling) and no triphthongs. Three symbols -- apostrophe/single-quote ('), period/full stop (.), and comma (,) -- are used for phonology and not punctuation.
I highly suggest reading up on it. Especially since this entry makes little sense if you don't.  end. | | |
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