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Hello, I had this idea. that every consonants has a meaning to what they feel like, K for wood/hard/spike, l for soft, d for crush/rock. This works best in an Abjad, so I will just write consonants, and you add any vowel you want.
So I start with, K for wood or hard, and have L for soft, KL is cut wood, KLL, is wheat, now D is rock/crush, and A (Glottal Stop) for Air or making a verb but only when placed before like IV in roman numerals, So A~ is a verb, AD is crush as a verb, DA is a light rock, B is bottom, base, below, platform, and also I but with the grammar, it is pronounced Bé when using it for I. and it is added to a verb to say who did it, BAD is I crush(ed) or Bé BAD is that sentence fully. DK is a hard rock, adjectives are added after words, DL is mud. That's it, I might add more to it in the future.
So I start with, K for wood or hard, and have L for soft, KL is cut wood, KLL, is wheat, now D is rock/crush, and A (Glottal Stop) for Air or making a verb but only when placed before like IV in roman numerals, So A~ is a verb, AD is crush as a verb, DA is a light rock, B is bottom, base, below, platform, and also I but with the grammar, it is pronounced Bé when using it for I. and it is added to a verb to say who did it, BAD is I crush(ed) or Bé BAD is that sentence fully. DK is a hard rock, adjectives are added after words, DL is mud. That's it, I might add more to it in the future.
Looks like a good start. This is called a philosophical language; you might be interested to see how others have approached the problems inherent in philosophical languages, like how to organize concepts, or how referring to specific objects can require really long words. Many languages of this category are designed to seek absolute, canonical names for all things, and they run into some special problems—like how to avoid cultural bias, how to refer to unknown individuals, how to deal with numbering sequences that contain spurious or lost entries,1 and how to refer to paradoxical objects.2
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1. Are you still the third child in your family after your older siblings die? What about step-siblings, or illegitimate children? Even if you come up with a strategy to solve these problems—which would require making a culturally-based value judgement about what constitutes family membership, and is hence not neutral—how can you possibly account for miscarriages your parents never told you about? Only with total knowledge of the universe can all sequence-numbering issues reliably be avoided.
2. Everything good in life can be ruined by a carefully-constructed diagonal argument.
1. Are you still the third child in your family after your older siblings die? What about step-siblings, or illegitimate children? Even if you come up with a strategy to solve these problems—which would require making a culturally-based value judgement about what constitutes family membership, and is hence not neutral—how can you possibly account for miscarriages your parents never told you about? Only with total knowledge of the universe can all sequence-numbering issues reliably be avoided.
2. Everything good in life can be ruined by a carefully-constructed diagonal argument.