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Ithkuil – An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)

by Unai on 2/21/22, 9:17 PM with 3 comments

  • by zowanet on 2/23/22, 12:04 AM

    A very enlightening read -- I certainly didn't expect the tangential connection to the separatist crisis in eastern Ukraine.

    More on topic; is anyone aware of any attempt to employ Ithkuil's grammar as an intermediary for lossless translation between natural languages? It occurred to me that translation of languages with poor interoperability would benefit from an intermediate representation that is capable of preserving the nuances of both. The idea being that you would only ever need to build a model for translation between {SomeLanguage} <=> Ithkuil, and this would allow for precise (albeit probably verbose) translation between any two languages.

    Or is this more or less how automated translation works already?

  • by QuadmasterXLII on 2/22/22, 7:10 AM

    Conlang Critic, a youtube channel I follow, did an episode on this language. It's fun to hear it spoken!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_n3loSfejg&list=PLuYLhuXt4H...

  • by codevark on 2/21/22, 9:58 PM