'J' IS FOR 'JOURNEYING DEEPER INTO PHILOSOPHY AND THOUGHT'.
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Codes, ciphers, and artificial languages
Linguistic influence has inspired numerous artificially constructed languages designed to encourage new and better ways of thinking.
Loglan was an experiment by James Cooke Brown to see if he could help speakers think more logically. Láadan was invented by Suzette Haden Elgin to express a less male-centric worldview compared to European languages. Toki Pona is a minimal, human language with only 100 words, designed to convey maximum meaning with minimum complexity. And Ithkuil is a philosophical experiment to optimise language.
E-Prime (short for English-Prime, and sometimes represented as É or E′), eliminates all forms of the verb ‘to be’, including conjugations, contractions, and archaic forms. The inventors, Kellogg and Bourland, claim that the abuse of this verb fosters ‘deity mode of speech’, allowing anyone to express opinions as if they were fact.
In E-Prime, we’re unable to say, ‘the film was good’. We’d have to say, ‘I liked the film’ or ‘the film made me laugh’. This forces the writer to communicate experience, rather than generic opinion lacking in reason. In turn, this makes the reader less likely to confuse opinion with fact.
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