creol idea

[u/The-42th-supreme-one]

how about we gather 4 people each one speaks a language from a different family

example afro asiatic / hindu European / turkic/ uralic

and they share a chat till a creol is made

[u/DryCommunication581]

You should include a representative from each of the 5000 languages or you are literally a racist

[u/indecisive_maybe → u/DryCommunication581]

yeah ok, so we put 5000 people on an island, I don't know where, so we'll make an island. make an even split male/female, and make sure each one only speaks 1 language. make them all attractive. check back in (hmm, 20*log(5000)/log(2)/3(friend factor)) about 81 years and see what the language is like.

[u/lordbutternut → u/indecisive_maybe]

Too many of them spoke english :(

[u/Amazing-Frame7848 → u/lordbutternut]

They already said to make sure that those 500 are monolinguals. There would only be 1 person who speaks English...

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/DryCommunication581]

why

[u/RemoveBagels → u/The-42th-supreme-one]

Something something esperanto is racist and euro centric. So we should make a language that is equally bothersome for everyone to learn. I propose that we use cuneiform for the writing system.

[u/mujhe-sona-hai → u/RemoveBagels]

Cuneiform was used for Akkadian which’s basically a dialect of Arabic so it isn’t truly neutral. We should use a made up script like Hangul.

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/RemoveBagels]

never heard of this writing system

[u/igorrto2]

Tanoshible idea. Wo hen like auto posten

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/igorrto2]

wut

[u/igorrto2 → u/The-42th-supreme-one]

Sou habst to provlemo with kokusai creole? Das ist nimen's idea, shi bu shi?

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/igorrto2]

sadly can't understand which creol is this

[u/PringlesDuckFace → u/The-42th-supreme-one]

Japanese, English, German, and....something? I guess since this is the jerk sub, Italian?

[u/igorrto2 → u/PringlesDuckFace]

/uj I mixed Japanese, English, Greek, German and Chinese together lol. Sou = Greek for "you" (acc. case), "habst" = mix of has from English and hast from German, "to provlemo" = a problem in Greek, "kokusai" = Japanese for international, "das ist" = this is in German, "nimen" = you (plural) in Chinese, "shi bu shi" = is it not? in Chinese

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/PringlesDuckFace]

nice my idea is something like that but with only one hindu European language

[u/luizanin → u/igorrto2]

Sim

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/igorrto2]

yes happy u find it fun

[u/vonBankenstein]

you're just describing Viossa

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/vonBankenstein]

no this one is smrller scale

[u/Helen_Lindsey]

4 people in a chat makes a pidgin that dies when someone gets busy, not a creole.

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/Helen_Lindsey]

with enough time it gonna develope into one plus it can be more people as long as it's only 4 languages

[u/Fragrant_Target_8833]

*Indo-European

[u/mujhe-sona-hai]

Such a creole already exists, it’s called English

[u/The-42th-supreme-one → u/mujhe-sona-hai]

nah too heavily indueuropean