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I just signed up for this group, and I see no one has posted in a while. I'll give the design goals for my language Minyeva (webpage: http://minyeva.alkaline.org ). major goals: - COMPENDIOUSNESS. I concentrate on providing specific forms plus vague forms so that you can be as specific or as vague as you like. - REGULARITY. Syntactically regular, but not necessarily lexically regular (as in completely regular derivation of related concepts). - LEARNABILITY semi-major goals: - REDUNDANCY. I want the language to be usable in noisy environments. - SYNTACTIC NON-AMBIGUITY. But I won't sacrifice ease of use for this goal. - AESTHETICS - NATURALNESS. I want it to obey most universals, but not much aside from that. minor goals: - PARSABILITY. Whenever this goal doesn't conflict with higher goals. - LOGICALITY. Maybe I'll pay attention to this later. - LOCAL/FORMAL SIMPLICITY. I want the language to be useable. - SEMANTIC PRECISION. This seems to be related in some way to the thing right above. - FLEXIBILITY. Just a little more flexibility than natural languages. - CONCISION. I don't want sentence length to get out of hand. not goals: - ICONICITY. Related words don't necessarily have related form at all. - GLOBAL/FUNCTIONAL SIMPLICITY