interesting project, for fun yes, but it seems it's based on an outdated assumption that 'thoughts are determined by language' [1] a sort of buy-one-get-one free.
However, human languages haven't been widely adopted with much success when designed/created top-down. Even more advanced and well developed languages such as Esperanto, haven't take off, though more widely adopted.
Personally I agree with Prof Steven Pinker, that Language is an Instinct, and that it evolves in communities, in stages, such as 'pidgin -> creole -> first/native language', most importantly developed & fortified by children.
The human brain has capacity for storing, processing and remembering tens of thousands of words, example [2]:
- 13K words for an average 3-year-old
- 60K words on average by the time they graduate from high-school
- a 3-year-old is likely to remember a new word casually mentioned in a conversation for up to 5 weeks
you may save in storage at the expense of processing, orchestrating, learning, and rather crucially accessibility. Except for fun, it's kinda pointless otherwise.
[1] Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic determinism "that people's thoughts are determined by the categories made avail-
able by their language, and its weaker version, linguistic relativity,
stating that differences among languages cause differences in the
thoughts of their speakers".
However, human languages haven't been widely adopted with much success when designed/created top-down. Even more advanced and well developed languages such as Esperanto, haven't take off, though more widely adopted.
Personally I agree with Prof Steven Pinker, that Language is an Instinct, and that it evolves in communities, in stages, such as 'pidgin -> creole -> first/native language', most importantly developed & fortified by children.
The human brain has capacity for storing, processing and remembering tens of thousands of words, example [2]:
- 13K words for an average 3-year-old
- 60K words on average by the time they graduate from high-school
- a 3-year-old is likely to remember a new word casually mentioned in a conversation for up to 5 weeks
you may save in storage at the expense of processing, orchestrating, learning, and rather crucially accessibility. Except for fun, it's kinda pointless otherwise.
[1] Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic determinism "that people's thoughts are determined by the categories made avail- able by their language, and its weaker version, linguistic relativity, stating that differences among languages cause differences in the thoughts of their speakers".
[2] Language Instinct, Steven Pinker