History of Vosa

 

History of Vosa

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Copyright Veikko J. Pyhtilä, Lahti, Finland, 14.4.2018

Video: History, need and development of Vosa artificial language

MY INITIAL IDEA

An easy-to-learn, derived from basic concepts, phonetically descriptive, beautiful, short, clear, logical world language will also be developed for gathering, structuring, clarifying, summarizing, standardizing, speech recognition and artificial intelligence.

PRODUCTS MADE AS MY HOBBY

During the economic recession of the 1990s, I have been making language teaching multimedia books. I grouped words according to basic concepts. I also developed my own easy language for fun. Nowadays, I have continued development.

A NEW SHORT, LOGICALLY DERIVED ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE

Advantages

·    Good for speech recognition for computers, artificial intelligence, international communication.

·    Easy to learn because words are derived from basic concepts and common root words.

·    Words are unambiguous, not synonyms, nuances are expressed in more precise terms for example by attributes, prefixes, suffixes  and making compounds.

·    Words are written the same as they are pronounced, phonetically the aim is beauty and descriptiveness.

·    Simple grammar and sentence structures. The language must be easy and quick to learn. There are a few inflections for words, and those which are according to the rules. See the principles in Vosa's grammar in more detail.

 

ASSESS MY PROPOSALS AND OBJECTIONS

·    It would take several hired experts from several world languages to modify the new language. OBJECTION: People can have a disagreement, which takes time. If you don't get funding and income, how will the salaries be paid? Even if you're hired, if you don't have enthusiasm, ideation and know-how, there won't be a good end result. Since I have laid a good foundation for the language, it can be continued to be developed also by amateurs.

·    It is hard work to derive special vocabulary, the words could become very long if they are formed with basic concepts. OBJECTION: At least initially, special vocabulary can be formed and shortened from words that are already common today by taking root words from them and shortening them for derivation.

·    Nowadays, words are in a way agreements about the meanings of concepts in different contexts. In the new language, the usage must be limited by the principle of one meaning / one word and one word / one meaning, so that the language would be as unambiguous as possible.

·    It takes a lot of time to modify the language to be optimal in all respects. OBJECTION: Logic is emphasized, when the basic concepts are explained sufficiently comprehensively and coded with letter symbols (they are also phonemes at the same time), then deriving words is quite fast with the help of data processing.

·    For example, the vocabulary of the English language is very large, if you have to form a new word for all the words so that it does not conflict with the previously derived words, it takes a lot of time. OBJECTION: You don't need to invent equivalents for almost all words in the English language, because they have a huge number of synonyms, the nuances of which can be expressed with additional attributes, other words, if necessary.

·    Perhaps it would be easier to make English a shortened, regularized and simplified language, or Finnish or some other language. OBJECTION: I have come to the conclusion that the most consistent comes from a language when its words are derived from basic concepts by combining, thus it is also quickly learnable.

·    So far, language matters are going in such a way that everyone has their own mother tongue, which is the best way to express things, and other languages are learned if necessary. Current languages are not changed, except that they change over time and have new and even shortened vocabulary and borrow words from other languages. OBJECTION: Even with the advent of artificial intelligence, it is time to make a better world language for processing knowledge and interaction between people.

·    It is hard work to change all the recorded information and literature into a new language. However, you have to study at least English. OBJECTION: Smart language translation programs make preliminary translations in an instant, which can then be edited and checked. There is no need to translate, only condensed knowledge and one time. The internet and other sources of information should be made in accordance with the object model, no repetition of the same things and the basic information available to everyone should be concise.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOSA

·    You have to find the most appropriate equivalents for Vosa's words in different languages.

·    Vocabularies should be standardized and checked and corrected for any possible errors. Words can be polished to be better and more understandable.

·    The vocabulary can be flexibly expanded according to Vosa's principles. More specialized glossaries can be made for different fields and fiction as well.

·    We should make a lot of sentences, language models for machine translators and develop a machine translator for Vosa.

·    We need a lot of enthusiasts from different languages to take Vosa's development forward and make it known worldwide.

 

HOW VOSA HAVE AND COULD STILL BE DEVELOPED

Define all concepts verbally with basic concepts. What are the basic concepts included in each word? Let’s start looking at the most common words and put the word next to the word already on the list, which is conceptually closest to it. On the other hand, the same word can be associated with many basic concepts, thus defining a word from which basic concepts it could be derived by combining. Synonyms obviously belong to the same group, but you need describe the difference in nuances by prefix, suffix, word combinations or attributes. In this way, basic concepts and derived concepts can be found out. According to the model, words are derived according to certain rules. Which of the concepts of a word is it the wisest to derive and what is the best and clearest suggestion of phonetics and logic. However, words and phrases must be as phonetically beautiful as possible and clearly distinguished from other words, so that automatic speech recognition and interpreters work more reliably and make software easier to use. On the other hand, if one strictly adheres to logic in the derivation of words, phonetic beauty and ease of pronunciation may suffer. There is therefore a balance to be struck between sound and consistency. Also, words must be memorable optimally.

Basic concepts of language can also have icons, so that writing can also become pictorial. The icons are clear and unambiguous. The icon-suggestions? They must be able to draw and write easily and quickly. At least 128 or 256 or 512 or 1024 basic concepts. Could be made an icon language to help with studying and communicating. There are even more than 100,000 characters in the Chinese language, of which the learned Chinese are likely to have a command of about 5,000 to 10,000. About 80% of Chinese characters have pronunciation characters, the rest somehow describe a word, a concept. There are hundreds of identical patterns in the letters, and the patterns are formed by pen strokes of a few dozen directions, lengths, and shapes. Vosa may be enough with letters writing describing voices, but an international easy language could have also an iconic addition.