XOVLAERW

XOVLAERW

XOVLAERW is an apriori language  designed to be as easy to learn as a language can be and still be capable of comprehensive expression.

XOVLAERW ( XOVL@RW) uses an phonetic alphabet of 18 consonants and 9 vowels (two can be  digraphs). Each of these sounds has a meaning, and all other meaning is derived from those sound meanings, so learning the 28 letters is pretty much all the true memorization you will have to do.

 It was quite difficult to select exactly the right words. In fact, I've been working on this since the 1980s, and have only recently got something I like.

 I've created a bunch of materials for this if anybody is interested. A word document, four spreadsheets, 28 mp3 files, and four executable files (drilling programs instead of flash cards). Not sure how to attach all that. [mailto:Tholish@verizon.net Tholish@verizon.net].

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Every word consists of a series of CVC syllables and ends with an additional vowel suffix. The consonants of each syllable relate it to one of the 342 transitive verbs implied by the pairings of the 18 concepts associated with the 18 consonants. The vowel of each syllable inflects the transitive verb different ways to produce various kinds of nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The terminal vowel simply indicates how important the word is in the sentence, what echelon it is at in the modificational heirarchy. Grammar relies heavily on SVO order. Modifiers precede what they modify as closely as possible, every word has a Subject, Verb, and Direct object with the vowel W as suffix. Words which directly modify them use Y as suffix, and precede them. Clauses are used to emulate all other grammatical constructions. For instance, the indirect object must be indicated by an adverbial clause.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Using this base of 342 verbs inflected into a few thousand other words, you can construct any concept you need, but the base vocabulary must be finite and fixed.

<p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> For example, some people in the future might say "CITW and XITW mean pretty much the same thing, so let's change the rules. From now on, 'predicts' is XIXCATW (says expected) and we can use XITW for something else. We need a word for 'googles,' so let's make XITW mean 'looks up on Google.' Someone who had not been party to this "deal" would be mystified when you used "XITW" to mean "Googles," whereas if you had said "DIDCOXW" (seeks learning, "researches") instead, you would have been comprehensible (even though the use of DIDCOXW to mean "Researches" is not explicitly spelled out in this book, except here as an example). If you needed more precision, you might make a word for internet. Computer is "ponderer devizee=TWSFYQW. Network is "sharingness methodizee"=BAUSLYRW. As a verb, networks, it is "methodizes sharingness"=LIRBAUSW.

<p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> TWSFYQY BAUSLYRW is computer networking. Computer networkedly (ponderer-devizee sharingness- methodizedly) would be TWSFYQO BAUSLERY. And computer networkedly researches would be TWSFYQO BAUSLERY DIDCOXW. "I google (an) animal" would be "XWVW TWSFYQO BAUSLERY DIDCOXW LYFW"=speaker computer-networkedly researches animatee.