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conlang idea: an extremely easy to learn language with the following attributes:
grammar: mandarin, but without several of the quirks (no counters, merging 的/地/得, merging 不/没, etc)
vocab: drawn from mostly English, because it's become the lingua franca. ideally the language is almost mutually intelligible to English speakers from the beginning
very simple phonology similar to japanese
consistent phonetic writing system based on the latin alphabet
only kinda? toki pona is trying to have as small a fundamental vocab as possible and constructing all other concepts using those few words. whereas i am totally happy to import all of English as prerequisite knowledge
1programjames
wannanada looks like わんななだ rather than わんあなだ, not sure how to distinguish these in romaji. also tuwardu should be tuwaadu or tuwarudu.