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Hmm, this is an interesting thread. I think there's room for lots of loglangs! I wish we would explore more of the possibilities. The loglang I'm working on is presently named "Babebabo"! Its segmentation and basic level of parsing is all in the vowels, it uses five: A: Continues a root, so just "b" is a very short root, and then "bab" is another root, or "t" is another very short root, and also "bat" "tat" "tab" "batatatatab" "batabatababababababat" etc are all distinct roots infinitely. So there's plenty of room for roots, though of course there's advantages to being short. E: Combines roots into compounds, so the root "t" plus the root "b" makes the compound "teb", or the root "batatatatab" plus the root "t" makes the compound "batatatatabet", or "bab" plus "tat" plus "bat" makes "babetatebat". I/U: Together a root+i and a root+u form a pair of parentheses. Inside them can be nothing, or one or more more such pairs. So for instance: "babi babu" (babi babu) or "babi babi babu babu" (babi (babi babu) babu) or "babebabi babi babu babi babu babebabu" (babebabi (babi babu) (babi babu) babebabu) or "babi babebabi babi babu babebabu babi babu babu" (babi (babebabi (babi babu) babebabu) (babi babu) babu) O: Just a shortcut-- if there's nothing inside of an I/U pair, instead of saying the word twice it can be shortened to just root+o once, so "babi babu" becomes just "babo" and "batabatabababababababati batabatabababababababatu" becomes just "batabatabababababato"! The next level of the grammar is determined by each enclosing pair of parentheses. Each root has its own grammar for what the things inside it mean. I'm not sure yet what the common grammars should be (it can't really be completely different everywhere, or it won't be for humans). Several of the super short roots, for instance, should have a grammar of lifting the first word from what they enclose, and then acting as if the rest of the words they enclose had been enclosed by that word, so instead of "babebabi babo babebabu" you could just say "di babebabo babo du" As well as these bits of the grammar I've also invented parts of the process by which Babebabo will begin its life: Instead of starting with a whole vocabulary, Babebabo will start with just a few words perhaps and this skeleton grammar. There'll be a system for proposing and prioritizing new words, and one proposed word will be selected by the community each day to begin its life as an official word of the language. The intention is that by dribbling the words out into the language, each word in the language is guaranteed to have had a moment where anyone cared about it enough to actually use it, define it, and make friendly beginner lessons about it. Sometimes the new word of a day will have an interesting internal grammar, making the language more complicated grammatically and enabling all sorts of new tricks everyone can start to play with. Most days the new word of the day will just be like that "banan" now means banana, so everyone can start saying "banani (whatever you usually put inside a fruit word) bananu" and caption some images or something so people in the future will be able to catch up. <3, mungojelly aka la stela selckiku