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The Language of the Future
There was a real attempt in language, as well as in these other arts. Tt, crates, a machine poetry. So there was an actual real life attempt to do that. Whille several i mean, there there was a huge interest in national languages around this time. But one of the strangest ones was created by the rather well known literary critic, i a richards and his collaborator, c k ogden. And it was called basic english. I think it had like 20 verbs maximum, and ana total vocabulary of eight dred but it came under criticism almost straightway, as a tool of colonialism. The real plan for it was to enable the easy enrolment of labor
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