Should the World adopt a new Metric Alphabet (the Decabet)?

[Leepaidamba]

Mi kredas ke mi preferas esperanto.

I never thought Esperanto was so much like Latin. Credo me praeferre Latinam, sed Esperanto malus non est. Latin does look better though. Which is one of the reasons why I'd support adopting it as an international secondary language, perhaps modified so that it has less irregularities, although it doesn't have many in the first place. Another is that it's perfectly adapted to the Latin alphabet. English definitely isn't, and it's not only because there are too many letters for the same sound, but also because there are too many sounds for the same letter.

[Geniasis]

Mi kredas ke mi preferas esperanto.

I never thought Esperanto was so much like Latin. Credo me praeferre Latinam, sed Esperanto malus non est. Latin does look better though. Which is one of the reasons why I'd support adopting it as an international secondary language, perhaps modified so that it has less irregularities, although it doesn't have many in the first place. Another is that it's perfectly adapted to the Latin alphabet. English definitely isn't, and it's not only because there are too many letters for the same sound, but also because there are too many sounds for the same letter.

Eh, you might as well. It's not like Esperanto is any less Eurocentric than Latin anyway, and at least Latin doesn't feel like a fake language.

[New Abooutland]

it is going to end up like britain using the metric and the imperial system, CONFUSING!!!

[The USOT]

I will see its merit, if anyone can translate the following word honestly.

ГГГГCЯ

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[Cromarty]

There are some things that shouldn't be metric. Just like the metric calendar the French tried, a metric alphabet sucks.

[Meridiani Planum]

Metric alphabet? This is metric naziism gone insane.

[Central Lothian]

No - because then my name would become a series of backward Rs and LMNOs.

[Chiota Tau]

I will see its merit, if anyone can translate the following word honestly.
ГГГГCЯ

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Does using a matrix count? It had 2*2*2*2*11 possibilities, so 176 isn't that bad. Regardless, that's a fairly simple word. When people have to figure out what in the world ЯЯЯЯЯЯAЯЧLMNOLMNO (11*11*11*11*11*11*11*3*4*4=935,384,208) means (or worse, ЯAЯADЧCЧLMNOLMNOЯLMNOBГLMNOЯГLMNOГ (11*11*3*3*4*4*11*4*2*4*11*2*4*2=1,079,451,648), then they'll give up.

The first word is sussuration (a whisper). I'll leave the second word up to you to find. Hint: You won't

EDIT: Ooh! Even better! ЯLMNOГЯLMNOLMNOLMNOLMNOЯLMNOЯЯALMNOЧCЯLMNOЯCLMNOЯЧCЯЧLMNOЧCLMNOЯLMNOLMNOCALMNOLMNOCLMNOЧLMNOЯЧЯ, which has 11*4*2*11*4*4*4*4*11*4*11*11*4*3*11*4*11*4*11*4*3*11*3*4*3*4*11*4*4*4*4*4*3*4*11*3*11=314,448,545,188,010,903,048,552,448 possibilities.

[Risottia]

Why? You don't need to divide set of letters. So, arithmetical considerations are quite immaterial.

Anyway, for the sake of clarity, let's just go IPA.

I know. But we should still eliminate letters, not to make it fit in with numbers but because some letters produce the same sound.

Not in IPA. IPA is biunivocal: one letter one sound.
Also, the English alphabet needs MORE letters, not less - there are more sounds than letters currently.

[Great Yorkshire]

I never thought Esperanto was so much like Latin. Credo me praeferre Latinam, sed Esperanto malus non est. Latin does look better though. Which is one of the reasons why I'd support adopting it as an international secondary language, perhaps modified so that it has less irregularities, although it doesn't have many in the first place. Another is that it's perfectly adapted to the Latin alphabet. English definitely isn't, and it's not only because there are too many letters for the same sound, but also because there are too many sounds for the same letter.

Eh, you might as well. It's not like Esperanto is any less Eurocentric than Latin anyway, and at least Latin doesn't feel like a fake language.

What's wrong with being a little eurocentric? most of the world's population speak one of the big European languages fairly well, which means the smallest adjustment for the largest number of people.

[Geniasis]

Eh, you might as well. It's not like Esperanto is any less Eurocentric than Latin anyway, and at least Latin doesn't feel like a fake language.

What's wrong with being a little eurocentric? most of the world's population speak one of the big European languages fairly well, which means the smallest adjustment for the largest number of people.

Ah, but Mandarin has the most native speakers.

[Palmia]

OH DEAR GOD THE EXPENSE!!! THE HORRIBLY POINTLESS EXPENSE!!!!

*gasps for air*

[Chinese Regions]

Your not even grouping the sounds together.

C-K can be combined into one.

My sentiments exactly.

[Chinese Regions]

I know. But we should still eliminate letters, not to make it fit in with numbers but because some letters produce the same sound.

Not in IPA. IPA is biunivocal: one letter one sound.
Also, the English alphabet needs MORE letters, not less - there are more sounds than letters currently.

Yes but some letters sound the same:
C, Ch (In school and character) and K sound the same
C annd S sound the same.
Therefore we eliminate c and keep s and k.
The sound ch could be replaced with a q like in Pinyin.
As for words that already use the q but there it sounds like k it can be changed to a k.

[Sithaar]

I propose making Estonian the lingua franca.

[Great Yorkshire]

I propose making Estonian the lingua franca.

Well, at least you've stuck your flag in it.

[Ifreann]

I propose making Estonian the lingua franca.

Why?

[Caninope]

If one letter stands for like 10 english letters..exactly how do you tell the difference?

It would be a decoding guessing game each time you spoke the language.

Exactly. The sentence "Make love to me" could be "Make mope to me!"

It makes everything so much fun!

[Charlotte Ryberg]

I don't think it will ever work because it is clearly a parody of the metric system involving Dan Akroyd and therefore, it was intended as a joke.

[Jinos]

No. That's dumb. The metric system makes unit conversion and mathematics using measurements easier, there is nothing inherently mathematical or measurable about language, so it's stupid to apply these concepts to a language.

English is already an easy language to learn, and what more it's the most globally universal, so if anything, the world should adopt English.

[Geniasis]

No. That's dumb. The metric system makes unit conversion and mathematics using measurements easier, there is nothing inherently mathematical or measurable about language, so it's stupid to apply these concepts to a language.

English is already an easy language to learn, and what more it's the most globally universal, so if anything, the world should adopt English.

English is already an easy language to learn, and what more it's the most globally universal, so if anything, the world should adopt English.

English is already an easy language to learn

Wait, what?

[Vetalia]

Nah, let's push it to the limit...the Unibet. One character.

[Ifreann]

No. That's dumb. The metric system makes unit conversion and mathematics using measurements easier, there is nothing inherently mathematical or measurable about language, so it's stupid to apply these concepts to a language.

English is already an easy language to learn, and what more it's the most globally universal, so if anything, the world should adopt English.

English is already an easy language to learn, and what more it's the most globally universal, so if anything, the world should adopt English.

English is already an easy language to learn

Wait, what?

I did it when I was a little kid, it can't really be difficult.

[Geniasis]

Nah, let's push it to the limit...the Unibet. One character.

That alphabet is walking along a razor's edge.

[Tlaceceyaya]

Nah, let's push it to the limit...the Unibet. One character.

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