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Beginners / Re: Sentence Attempts
« on: May 01, 2011, 05:44:43 pm »Yes, I think drivo is the correct word.
Good to know.
As for ambiguity, I know that there are several words that need to be understood in context. Just take a word like me that means both he, she and it so you would need to be explicit if there is a chance there will be confusion.
On the other hand. Have you seen Davids writing guide for english? http://dedalvs.com/guide/index.php
He's very aware of the fact that english is full of strange things and I would guess based on that that he would perhaps want to avoid ambiguity in the languages he creates.
He has also proposed his own spelling reform for the english language. http://dedalvs.com/petersonian.html
I've seen LOTS of the things at his site, but never the things related to English.
Spelling reform is very interesting, but I don't think it will happen in my lifetime due to the fact that it would undermine English’s linguistic dominance in the technology age. Pronunciations have diverged so significantly in Singapore, India, etc. that without the "standardized" spellings a lot of the intelligibility across geographic boundaries would evaporate.