Don’t Fear the Robot: Taming ChatGPT and Making It Work for You
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/dont-fear … k-for-you/
Stackexchange and our discussion of language
'Is there research on which diphthongs are perceived by English speakers as single sounds?'
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/q … s-as-singl
Como se diz «spoiler» em português?
https://portuguese.stackexchange.com/qu … ugu%c3%aas
Why does 善悪の彼岸 mean "Beyond Good and Evil"? In particular, how does 彼岸 correspond to "beyond"?
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/ques … -%e5%bd%bc
Whether to say “c’est drôle comment” or “c’est drôle comme”
https://french.stackexchange.com/questi … b4le-comme
I had posted on this animal marine mammal topic before
Perhaps SETI communicating with humpback whales to learn and train an AI model on how to interact with potential NHI
Scientists had a 20-minute "conversation" with a humpback whale named Twain
]]>The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and linguistic reality
Subscribed paywall
The lexicon of an Old European Afro-Asiatic language. Evidence from early loanwords in Proto-Indo-European
https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109 … 22.135.1.3
The study examines the archaeolinguistic implications of Semitoid loanwords in Proto-Indo-European. Contact linguistics offer a unique opportunity to calibrate speech communities in relation to each other, but the Steppe hypothesis of Indo-European does not contain a concise explanation of the immutable similarities in primarily Neolithic vocabulary shared with Southwest Asian speech communities. The study introduces a baseline of 21 pivotal items with the distribution and age in both Indo-European and Semitic that should be accounted for. It is concluded that a parsimonious archaeolinguistic scenario is available on the “persistent frontier” between the early European farmers and the nascent Steppe pastoralists on the eastern perimeter of the Carpathians. Subject to further scrutiny, a sub-family here called Old Balkanic on the Afro-Asiatic language tree is posited as the source of the Semitoid words in Proto-Indo-European.
Languages with more speakers tend to be harder to (machine-)learn
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45373-z
Here is the Pigin News Service
]]>I was think 'Morse Code' might also be useful required by law or mandate for early colonists in case of an emergency
]]>I'm still not sure if it is wise for tax payers to fund the BBC Pidgin Ebonics creole languages or BBC News Pidgin service
Badly spoken English or gibberish and Afro slang from 17th century and bad spelling wi5th modern rap words has now become one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, , it does not have a standard written form but BBC is trying to make it official as a form of news communication?
Human Brains and Languages
Role of Executive Resources In Language Comprehension
]]>“We’re with you,” Biden tells Puerto Rico ahead of visit
https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/news … -of-visit/
‘More a colony today than we were 30 years ago’: former senator of Puerto Rico
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202209/1276353.shtml
Why Hurricanes Are Such a Disaster for Puerto Rico
https://www.yahoo.com/video/why-hurrica … 02401.html
Lost language
On a recent two-month road trip through France, I prepared to square off against unexpected accents and regional slang as I made my way through unknown parts of the country. But as I dragged my suitcase with its one broken wheel through the cobblestoned streets of Lyon, Lille, and Aix-en-Provence, I was surprised to find hints of deeper language differences, literally at every corner.
https://frenchly.us/the-lost-languages-of-france/
Podcast
Franz Boas and the Boasians
https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/10/01/podcast-episode-28/
Immigration, identity shape election in French-speaking Quebec
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … ing-quebec
What happens if your people are unhappy and want to break away?
Immigration could be source of conflict between Ottawa and Quebec’s re-elected CAQ
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ … uebecs-re/
Quebec separatism in Canadian history some Québécois maintained a perennial desire to have their own state, there have even been nationalist extreme right or extreme left parliamentary groups that promoted radical actions annd other non-Violent but linked Sympathetic organizations and Sovereignist media.
The anon interwebs asks a question
'Why didn't Zamenhof include labial velar approximant in Esperanto?'
https://lulz.com/why-didnt-zamenhof-inc … 00-352214/
going by mix of responses I think that board is a crazy mix of 4chan or twitter 'culture'
Ideas on older languages
Early Indo-European Online
https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol
Introduction to the Language Lessons
Recent advances in determining the origin of western civilization and the settlement of Europe are based especially on findings in genetics, archeology and linguistics. The papers on the topic given at a conference that brought together eminent specialists in these fields under organization of the Banco Popolare di Milano have been published in Italian under the title Le radici prime dell'Europa. Gli intrecci genetici, linguistici, storici, edited by Gianluca Bocchi and Mauro Ceruti (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2001). While these three sciences all provide information on the settlement, only through linguistics can the people involved be identified. Yet linguistics dealing with the early period is least advanced of the three. Moreover, grammars published as introductions to the early languages are produced on the pattern of those designed for instruction of secondary school students of years past, who were expected to take eight years of Latin, six of Greek, and then proceed to the study of Sanskrit and other less widely studied languages like Old Slavic, Armenian, and Avestan. Under curricula of today, few scholars find such a course of study acceptable.
The evolution of dialect, slang and languages itself
and How did 'entreat', but not 'treat', shift to mean 'to enter into negotiations'?
https://english.stackexchange.com/quest … gotiations
Junkmail and Phone calls for Martians? It's not just Spammers inside India, Turkey, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Vietnam sending you messages its also the software robots are trying to sell you stuff.
FCC Threatens To Block Calls From Carriers For Letting Robocalls Run Rampant
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/3/2338 … osenworcel
Google Translate, one of Google's last remaining products in China, has been shut down "due to low usage." According to CNBC, "The dedicated mainland China website for Google Translate now redirects users to the Hong Kong version of the service. However, this is not accessible from mainland China."
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/10/0 … e-in-china
Humans are ** still ** inventing languages.
It seems to me that since human babies have the ability to rapidly learn multiple languages, the best policy for parents and the larger community is to provide opportunities for each and every child to learn as many languages as possible during the years when the human brain is best able to do so.
Absolutely NO one has a right to force a language upon anyone else.
That doesn't stop most of us from attempting to force whatever our native language may be upon others.
Apparently that is just the way things are when a bunch of humans evolve on a planet.
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]]>I have posted before asking how Mars 'culturally' Does Not become a 'Failed State' or Asking if Multiculturalism Failed ?
So Lunar colonization will be a multi-cultural adventure, Gateway and Artemis agreements, Mexican Colombian Spanish language with English and also 65 Latin Amerindian languages, 2 Creole languages, the mix of local dialect Spain-Portuguese language and the Romani language, Ukrainian language, Singapore Malay or maybe even 'Singlish', Japanese language, Canadian French, Polish Western Slavic or simply polski, Brazilian Portuguese from the Ibero-Romance-Latin group, Korean language, New Zealand Native Maori language, the jihadi mohammedan language of Sharia Law Monarchy Arab States? Brazil both Western and other non-alligned? is politically part of the BRICS group but I do not see South Africa, as a Signatory Nation or Statement of Intent, this would add another 11 official languages.
Of course left by itself on some far off island colony, a language might even de-evolve
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/c5qvpq9wqd8t
Artemis Accords signatories hold first meeting
https://spacenews.com/artemis-accords-s … t-meeting/
“This will most likely take time,” he added, “but we believe this is very important.”
This is not a criticism of all others ability, the Canadians have made great contributions to NASA programs and have their own Space Program, S.Korea is now in space and Japanese got lots of experience with robots and have their own space missions, the French culture has worked on expendable launch systems since the 1960s, they put the first cat in space and gave us the workhorse of the Ariane rocket and are the backbone of a lot of ESA science, for a time Brazil joined the ISS project in 1999 and Brazil have been on the ISS in the past.
How silly could things get?
Dis dat Nasa dey don stop dat launch of dem new era dat Moon ploration
Dat issues techni make dat Nasa stop dont wuz Moon dem rocket launch
Di American space agency don don call off launch of di new era Moon
Ima work na to force one test capsule, wey dem call Orion, farfar wuz fur from Earth.
'Everytin we no dis dey do wit dis Artemis I flight, we dey look see through di lens of wetin we fit prove out and wetin we fit demon strate wey go buy down risk for fur dis Artemis II crewed mission,
Nasa astro naut Randy Bresnik, x splain.'Elon Musk don become di richest for di world, as e overtake Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Di Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur net worth don pass $185bn (£136bn) afta increase in di share price of im electric car company.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-55581126
So, wetin be di secret of im success? To mark dis im new milestone we don put together some Elon Musk guide to success in business from interview we get wit amMandla Maseko: Di African astronaut wey die before im chance to enta space
One South African wey win opportunity to be di first black African to enta space don miss di chance afta im die for motorbike accident before im dream become reality.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-48905827
Mandla Maseko wey be 30 years old, die on Saturday, according to statement wey di family release.
Arimah win 2019 Caine prize
In 2013, di South African Air Force member beat one million oda pipo to win one of di 23 places to go space academy in di US.I honestly have no idea why the BBC wastes its peoples tax payer money to broadcast this creole jive ebonics pidgin English gibberish
I tried reading this, but unfortunately I don't speak Retard. Sumwun tel da man i sed vat meen wurd.
Seriously, this sort of crap is why Australia had a 'White Only' immigration policy. One way of avoiding interracial tensions is to avoid importing them. And choose colonists from high IQ areas of the world. That means Europe and East Asia. People with enough neurons in their head to actually understand non-phonetic spelling. Though apparently not enough neurons to develop a sensible energy policy. Even clever people can be really stupid sometimes. But at least they can reed, I mean read.
]]>So Lunar colonization will be a multi-cultural adventure, Gateway and Artemis agreements, Mexican Colombian Spanish language with English and also 65 Latin Amerindian languages, 2 Creole languages, the mix of local dialect Spain-Portuguese language and the Romani language, Ukrainian language, Singapore Malay or maybe even 'Singlish', Japanese language, Canadian French, Polish Western Slavic or simply polski, Brazilian Portuguese from the Ibero-Romance-Latin group, Korean language, New Zealand Native Maori language, the jihadi mohammedan language of Sharia Law Monarchy Arab States? Brazil both Western and other non-alligned? is politically part of the BRICS group but I do not see South Africa, as a Signatory Nation or Statement of Intent, this would add another 11 official languages.
Of course left by itself on some far off island colony, a language might even de-evolve
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/c5qvpq9wqd8t
Artemis Accords signatories hold first meeting
https://spacenews.com/artemis-accords-s … t-meeting/
“This will most likely take time,” he added, “but we believe this is very important.”
This is not a criticism of all others ability, the Canadians have made great contributions to NASA programs and have their own Space Program, S.Korea is now in space and Japanese got lots of experience with robots and have their own space missions, the French culture has worked on expendable launch systems since the 1960s, they put the first cat in space and gave us the workhorse of the Ariane rocket and are the backbone of a lot of ESA science, for a time Brazil joined the ISS project in 1999 and Brazil have been on the ISS in the past.
How silly could things get?
Dis dat Nasa dey don stop dat launch of dem new era dat Moon ploration
Dat issues techni make dat Nasa stop dont wuz Moon dem rocket launch
Di American space agency don don call off launch of di new era Moon
Ima work na to force one test capsule, wey dem call Orion, farfar wuz fur from Earth.
'Everytin we no dis dey do wit dis Artemis I flight, we dey look see through di lens of wetin we fit prove out and wetin we fit demon strate wey go buy down risk for fur dis Artemis II crewed mission,
Nasa astro naut Randy Bresnik, x splain.'
Elon Musk don become di richest for di world, as e overtake Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Di Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur net worth don pass $185bn (£136bn) afta increase in di share price of im electric car company.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-55581126
So, wetin be di secret of im success? To mark dis im new milestone we don put together some Elon Musk guide to success in business from interview we get wit am
Mandla Maseko: Di African astronaut wey die before im chance to enta space
One South African wey win opportunity to be di first black African to enta space don miss di chance afta im die for motorbike accident before im dream become reality.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-48905827
Mandla Maseko wey be 30 years old, die on Saturday, according to statement wey di family release.
Arimah win 2019 Caine prize
In 2013, di South African Air Force member beat one million oda pipo to win one of di 23 places to go space academy in di US.
I honestly have no idea why the BBC wastes its peoples tax payer money to broadcast this creole jive ebonics pidgin English gibberish
pidgin or creole is sometimes confused with African American English?
"African American" Vernacular English
'As an African American who does not speak "African American" Vernacular English, I find this name to be a misnomer. I believe most will agree that this variant of the American English language is not an African American variety of the American English language. This dialect is commonly used (but not always used) among the hip hop community, those who are undereducated, and those who are impoverished. This being so, i believe that the article should reflect this fact and not give the impression that AAVE is just an African American dialect that spilled over onto other races.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Afri … ar_English
Multi-culture or multiple languages are not always a bad thing, Switzerland and Singapore are examples of multiple cultures inside a country that work.
]]>Photographic memory for a witness?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101 … 562v1.full several other scientists working on that since maybe 2019
Direct abstract visual math brain communication using sound, code and images
AI that can visualize our thoughts.
https://twitter.com/Ronald_vanLoon/stat … 98721?s=19
Perhaps you will have little control over the language on Mars, once those colonies get moving, the Bidomes grow food, the Biospheres start to trade Mars people, Human or Cyborg will speak whatever the Martians are already speaking. In Finland, there are lesser forms of Positive and Negative the Finnish has a word for yes, and a negative verb although one of its forms, 'ei', can serve as a general no. The confusions created by English, it seems that English lacks a single word for the concept expressed by French 'si' or German 'doch' which is an 'affirmative' answer to a negative question. If a person is asked "Don't you like pie?" in English, both people can be easily misunderstood— both "yes" and "no" could either confirm the assumption or refute it. The conversation easily leads to Yes you don't like pie, or yes you do like pie?. 'Si', on the other hand, would invariably mean Negative "you're wrong; I *DO* like pie!" Mars will they words for types of red sand or Eskimo words for snow so in this sense, they don't only have 2 or 20 or 200 words for types of ice or white snow, but an infinite variety— but this applies to each and every word for the types of Mars sands?
In our entertainment media the Tv, books and media seem to often indicate the futrue will have mixes of languages maybe Spansih or Japanese Turkish like in Demolition Man and Blade Runner or a mix of English a nd Chinese in Firefly there is futurist slang in Back to the Future Part II. In Stargate, they combine the scifi futurism with mythology of the past almost adding a mix of ancient alien conspiracy story, the crew sent there on the Offworld Stargate team is a linguist and an Egyptologist, soon he recognizes the sound of words or similar phrases or one of the local transplanted humans shows him hieroglyphic inscriptions that he can recognize, he improvises his own translations across the Galaxy from a fictional world of ancient human/alien civilization. In back to the future the scifi fantasy movie policewoman mentions that Hilldale is "nothing but a breeding ground for tranks, lobos and zipheads". "Trank" seems to mean "drug addict". Maybe you will wear a lens or glass or earphone that automatically attempts an on the fly translation or in the future, there will also be the de-evolved, the war torn people and idiocy where words are spelled as if they were written or typed by barely-literate children.
Do We Need a Single International Language in Space?
https://www.space.com/40864-internation … space.html
Transmission of new language, image, sound and code and a Cyborg A.I language that teaches itself to program better?
]]>Maybe we should do a future timelines or possible prediction thread?
Even if they’re not actually intelligent, AIs may shift the nature of human expression itself
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2 … ion-itself
Prediction from Caliban
More Practical Interplanetary Colonization Ship
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=10120
The future of Mars colonisation really is going to depend on NAFTA, which the UK and Australia will probably end up joining. Japan will ultimately be drawn into a more intimate relationship with NAFTA as it's Asian trading partners collapse. But it will lack a substantial surplus population to support actual colonisation efforts. This means that a future colonised Mars is going to have a very specific Anglo-US Australian cultural leaning, with Hispanic elements part of the mix. That has interesting implications for how Martian society will look, how it will solve problems and evolve. But I digress.
Other discussion
A New Vision for Mars - Include Ordinary People and Their Kids
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2785
A private sector Lunar Mining colony - Getting the money
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1943
Languages - Parlo Italiano - What langauge should be the Official?
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2748
maybe the AI themselves will invent their own mix of language with math and electro magnetic radiation broadcast and laser singals and direct brain images that are far more efficient than human speech?
]]>This is what humans have learned about sound on Mars
https://www.albanyherald.com/news/this- … 4ef83.html
For Mars_B4_Moon re #25
The Chinese are busy converting any stray non-Mandarin languages that remain in use in their land mass.
They have regional languages and localized dialects but because everyone reads the same characters they all understand each other, they just have different words for stuff. All of Asia has local dialects, Korea has it, Thailand has it, Japan has it however as the education and tv is pushed and language standardized, lots of little cultures and micro-community have their linguist differences fade into extinction to be replaced by one larger generic language. There are still differences in the English languages, Scottish 'Gallus' Bold or Daring, Geks – glasses, Bonnie – describes something beautiful, Monadh– describes Moorland covered mountain, Fandan – a pretentious idiot, 'bonnie lass' is a lovely girl, some people who might speak perfectly good English from London or NewYork could arrive in some local part of Asutralia or Scotland and have no idea what the locals are saying because of the thick dialects and accents.
American vs British examples
Truck vs Boot
Faucet vs Tap
Autumn vs Fall
Dates are written in Different Forms
French fries or FreedomFries during the Neo-Con years vs Chips
American vs British that kind of thing
However some Chinese are so different and isolated it is almost impossible for a person from Beijing to understand them in regards to their writing and new education I think something has been lost in the standardization of simplification of Chinese, in the socialism drive to educate everyone maybe something got lost and now the guys in HongKong, Taiwan and Japan now write it better, it has retained the original art form.
I don't hope they preserve every diverse language because I hope they send ugly 1400 yr old religious Arabic hacking cough noises into extinction
The world has enough mohammedan 'culture'
New Controversies Arise Over French Language in Canada
https://www.voanews.com/a/new-controver … 42656.html
The 'K' flavour at Habitat Film Fest. Korean cinema or ‘K’ movies have gained immense popularity .
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/fil … -film-fest
Students learn in Native language at immersion school
https://www.abqjournal.com/2489657/stud … ildre.html
The language of globalisation in a post-Covid world
https://www.reuters.com/brandfeature/th … ovid-world
Effective localisation requires local insights into what is relevant to the target audience in that territory, including an understanding of how a brand is used locally: for example, whether it is considered a luxury or mid-market brand, or the age of the target market. In addition, the cultural context must be considered: colour, icons and humour may all need careful localisation.
A well-known example of this is KitKat, which became extremely successful in Japan because KitKat sounds like “kitto katsu”, Japanese for “you will surely win!” Parents would give children the snack before exams, and the company leveraged this with a local campaign that allowed people to write a good luck message on the wrapper and then send the chocolate bar through the post. Japan is now the KitKat capital of the world.
Perhaps the most sophisticated element of localisation is transcreation – the adaptation of creative assets such as advertising slogans to a local market.
A great example of transcreation is Haribo’s slogan. In German it is “Haribo macht Kinder froh, und Erwachsene ebenso”. In English, a direct translation would be something like “Haribo makes children and adults happy as well.” This loses the rhyme, however, so it was adapted for English-speaking markets market as: “Kids and grown-ups love it so, the happy world of Haribo.”
Japanese toymaker introduces mini lunar exploration robot
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japanese-toym … 49791.html
Salvador DALL-E: OpenAI releases Artificial Intelligence tool that can produce a full image from a text description - or even create new angles for existing images
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech … -text.html
A new album hopes to get a new generation speaking, singing the Cherokee language
https://www.kosu.org/music/2022-04-14/a … e-language
The 16 Rules of Esperanto, compared with English http://esperanto-chicago.org/the-16-rul … h-english/ Is Esperanto the language of the Future? https://www.lexika-translations.com/blo … he-future/ , Lingua Ignota, Computer Languages? Solrésol and Esperanto
Esperanto is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by Polish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887.
The language has also gained a noticeable presence on the internet in recent years
https://web.archive.org/web/20171228193 … -esperanto
https://web.archive.org/web/20171226021 … in-history
AI sucks at telling jokes — but it’s great at analyzing them
https://thenextweb.com/news/google-palm … yzing-them
This one is behind a pay wall
The complexities of fictional languages and argots
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/comp … itra-fini/
However the make reference to fiction which is instresting. Some fanbase of LOTR, StarWars, StarTrek take their fictional scifi fantasy languages very serious.
Musk last year tweet,
a poem titled “Humankind,” included a composition known as the “Quatrain of Seven Steps.” The poem is famous in China, and refers to a spat between brothers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire- … 49147.html
The poem, titled the "Quatrain of Seven Steps," was written by Cao Zhi, a poet who lived during the Three Kingdoms period of China, which spanned from 220 to 280 A.D. Cao Zhi reportedly said the words aloud to settle a dispute with his brother, Cao Pi. In modern-day China, it serves as an allegory for getting along.
Now for the written language which are symbolic drawings that can connect to a single word or to a whole sentence these are going to be even harder to retain....without some sort of computer use to translate when being viewed.
]]>Holy Moley!
SearchTerm:Language review by Mars_B4_Moon covering multiple languages and possible implications for Mars.
The Chinese are busy converting any stray non-Mandarin languages that remain in use in their land mass.
A few short years from now there won't be any left, if the trends there continue.
A settlement of Chinese on Mars may have a policy of keeping knowledge of other languages ready for use if needed, but I'll bet the main language in use within the settlement will be the same as in the Nation itself.
(th)
]]>Now, with all that being said, one shouldn't be discouraged from speaking their native Earth language in a non-official environment.
Would have been interesting to speak with this guy, don't see him around anymore. I wonder how he wrote his name in Japanese-Chinese alphabet maybe it would have been wrote using the pic symbols for 'Ko' aka 'Old' 古 + 'Look' 見 + Mountain
Jumpboy -
Complete ignores African, Chinese and Indian languages.
I would Not support forcing languages into space or imposing a language or a weird new mix-Language on Mars unless its say a specfic country and they want their people speaking their language on Mars. Say a Russian funded mission and they the Russians themselves want their Russian colony to speak Russian or its an American funded city and they want the people there speaking US English or for some strange reason the British Queen's version of English that's ok. I don't support forced langaue into people of Mars unless it was a nation, for example China and they put huge time and effort into building their Chinese colony and they want all stuff wrote and spoken in Chinese, they want all their 'Art' to say China.
As for a multi-national effort and an imposed new mutli-national language, Esperanto I can maybe understand but the whole idea it seems forced like forcing Christians to study old Latin, we already have a Multi-Cultural international mission on the Space Station and as it is getting the mission communicating smooth was already a great challenge with American and British English, Russian, Brazilian-Portuguese, Japanese language, German, French and all the other languages of people working Europe/ESA I don't see the need to start adding more to this multi-cuture of complexity just for the sake of try to be more and more and more diverse. The people of Mars might decide one day by their own self that hand signs and sign-language or some other unforseen thing is a very important part of their own cultures communication, they may invent their own words for different types of colored Sunsets, or Orange or Reds or Sand and words to describe their Biodomes and have their own expressions and it might become 'Mars Standard'. Some languages are simply not read for Mars they are Earth rooted “tribal language” they have only 5 consonants and 5 vowels just two or 3 roots, and a grammar system and syntax consisting very few loosely defined rules. Is such a simple less defined less accurate language a good thing to operate some Anti-Matter particle smashing machine on Mars?
The Japanese for example can have both a simple langauge and highly complex in their own way, they have spaceprobes, they operate nuclear reactors, they have high speed bullet trains but as for their language it can be simple to speak and very hard to read, it also can be hard to translate the subtleties of it, they have honorifics and cany different ways of saying the word 'I', I'm your humble servant, you can say 'I' in a way it means the cool dude samurai, or I myself the teenage variant or I a geisha girl, the language can be both masculine and feminine and gender-neutral . You can say 'I' in a way that calls yourself a young adult or teen, 'I' am above a kid in social class I'm a respectable relaxed young adult but using this 'I' you are of lower class to an older man who owns a company..using different ways of saying 'I' the Japanese can put themselves inside a class, another thing is they normally do not use I...they can simply say cake was ate or 'cake was eaten' there is no I ate the cake...but it makes less sense in the English language, also 'beer was drank' instead of I drank the beer. A langauge like Japanese can put less emphasis on ownership the subject or person, it is the event that is of importance and classed in their langauge that is what is important. Now can you imagine the complexity of operating the ISS, an international station of people from the USA and English speaking nations, Russia, Japanese, French and to translate every daily event every Astronaut and Cosmonuat flight from Russia, USA, and the whole of Europe accurately? What a challenging task that would be!!! if the ISS is already a super challenge why would you add more layers of linguistic complexity to a Mars colony!?
If people settle and stay on Mars the local language of Mars will probably evolve by itself. For reasons I won't get into now I believe culturally and descriptively English is a better language than Spanish although Spanish can be spoken well, in general it is not, as for forcing a mix of Chinese India maybe...let them prove their cultural worth on an international project getting to Mars. Yes the Chinese are on Mars now with Robots. I see the Chinese cultural worth I understand since their space program advances each year and they are ahead of the even Europeans and even Japanese in many ways. However why do you think a language from a less advanced culture and lower tech nation with no launch rockets, no history of Mathematics, no Historical experiences of Biology studies, no long History of Writing and Sciences and other such things in our modern scientific and logical world of study these old languages they simply have no word for this stuff. Africa has something like 1800+ languages some of them Bantu related, some of the language families are part of a jihadi Islamic Arabic history, adding these languages will open a possiblity of not being able to understand something your are also adding religious mohammedan stupidity, some African languages have no word for a 'thing' no words for this-or-that, some African languages have no measurements they have just up and more up or use down and lower down, and low low down, some langauges are poor at expressing ownership no Prepositional, bad use of subject matter and adverb phrases, there are ‘Anumeric’ people and languages, people who don't have a concept of time or exact numbers, some languages do not express a nothing and can not express the concept of "one" some languages use two hands for counting the left and right for "one" and "two" and anything more is called "many". Some languages out ther have no words for 'Thankyou', some African countries continue to use the lnagues of their colonizers because they consider the foreign languages more culturally advanced, Some langauges have no counting words, there are the four major language families acorss Africa, you have Niger-Congo Bantu the Niger-Kordofanian language family, you have anothehr Bantu type a lingustic and new race and language linekd to genetic homogeneity across Bantu-speaking groups from Mozambique and Angola this is another seperate language even though it is also classed by lingustics as a Bantu language, you have languages of Sudan and Kenya which have Arab influences and you have the North African islamic Arab influenced languages Barbary an Afro-Asiatic group, theer are Indo-European to the South and the former British protugese and French colony languages, Kwadi languages of Angola which might eb sperate again, Madagascar language although African might be non-African and closer related to Indonesians and Australaisn and finally all the way down to South Africa you have the clicking sound languages, its like clicking a knocking of the mouth or tongue a Chuff or Ticking noise, or an odd sound like calling a pet dog or horse. Within these African language groups there can be thousands of other sub language, the language can be very regional with thousands upon thousands of sub dialects.
Some African Alphabets were wrote down for the first time only 20 years ago, some Spanish or British or a local African or an Jewish or French guy came along and gave them a new Writing system in Africa, some adapted writing systems only 10 years ago, some got syllable and orthography and speech sounds and writing systems for the first time over 100 years ago some for the first time 30 years ago or only 70 years ago, the Bassa Vah, Vai syllabary, N'Ko script, Loma language...all 'new' languages. Some use these odd form of creole pigin Ebonics version of English, almost all former Colonies have a more Ebonic Pidgin English Creole form of langauges like French or English or Spanish other languages, think of a guy in America who finished school early and never went back to school, they have news sites that even print this stuff like the BBC, they might read
'Obama say sorry helps quakey quake go boom boom Iran Earthquake don kill lots over end di di Wound sum die for day time dey quick heal '
''Diz animal dem dey hide from people because dem dey kill-kill di gorillas dis done corruptions und poo-poo trap woman for window'
Other news headlines might read like -
'Yuz no no islami iz dem fur Africas Wetin dem u BlackWhitey know wey bi Biafra? Form Pres tell News say to divide di country no be di solution'
'Iz cuz Man wey spen years for jail ontop crime e no commit dey face new rape accuse wey dem free from life imprisonment afta dem throway rape accuse against am dey face anoda rape accuse.
Dis Trump Donald say no no de olympic wuld cup so go to Merica place, da international go do im wey go clear road for di Everton Paris Cup Soccer Tennis Williams to join di new place for Olympic not go Japan cuz virus in Japan.'
Communication Breakdown!?
This would be printed documents of live speeches, real talking from real African people. These would be actual offical printed headline in their broken tongue in their offical news
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Some of these who read this stuff would be the 'higher educated'
Some Tribal or African languages are too simplified for complexity, some tribal Native American, African and Amazon languages do not have words to describe colors, were the original speakers color blind? Some can not add or subtract they do not have words for numerals except for one and two and words that describe which is nothing but a change in tone, some language do not have colors they have 'stripes poison' word they have a rainbowy word but no other color word, maybe they could not read or write maybe the original village elder did not see colors well? Some of these languages are from cultures that still do not build great wonderous civilsations, they are still simple and tribal and nomadic, they do not describe the modern complex world they are too busy surviving. Some langauges are not exact or precise like take for example a word in English, like 'Snap' it can mean a card game, it can mean to break, Snap can mean to loose one's mind and go crazy, it can mean the opposite and mean to wake up and have a moment of clarity to 'snap out of it', the word Snap it can have a meaning to take a photograph, it can mean to close a jacket or fasten a seatbelt on an aircraft flight, a guard dog can snap and it can mean 'bite' in some of these languages One Word or Phrase can mean A Lot of things... You have homophobes in languages 'air' can sound like a royal 'heir' or a local English person can have a local dialect and accent so strong they might even say 'here' or 'hair' all the same sounding word, then you have all the accents and dialects of English from Aus, South Africa, Scotland and other places. Do you want your colony to have all langauges on Earth to spend money on these universal translator people to try design the a blend of multi-cultural langauges? There are simple city town language, are Creole Jive talking languages that make weird mixes of African and ghetto hood culture of French and English that are so urban strange that only people in their own ghettos and their own city can understand them. Some are from more simple times and in tune with nature but they do not build aircraft, they do not have a Navy, they are not space faring people, some of the cultures have never seen an Ocean, they chuck spears and run from wild animals and pick fruit from African trees. There are thousands upon thousands of localized smaller language families of Africa, there is perhaps no reason to force these languages and minds and peoples into outer space and force the culture into a complex space colony on Mars. I do not see any point in adding more and more tribal syllabary symbolism and alphabets and foreign languages into an already complex place that will be a Mars colony.
Whatever language the manual on how to keep the power reactor running will automatically be the default language.
We might also assume there might be more than one nation or culture on Mars, as I undersdtand it US Astronauts who go to fly from Russia learn Russian and Russian Cosmnuats who fly with NASA study the English language or they at least try their best to do a 'crash course' in each others languages. Astronauts learn not just the Russian English language, but the specialty language of what will be happening on the ISS, the hand signs the codewords – the "language of the astronaut." I believe it became one of the requirements for its astronauts entry, knowing Cyrillic alphabet characters and to learn the Russian language in preparation for the ISS.
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