Hey I started recently (like two weeks ago) to spend some time with a team developping a FLOSS MMORPG (
Khaganat - developped in France mostly by French and in French for now) where the "historical" language is lojban ; the "official" common language will be simpler to learn, with less phonemes (to avoid possible confusions for people with different mother tongues, like R, which is a nightmare internationally, and also there id F but not V, and P but not B, and so on) but with lojban-inspired root words. That work of creating the language is really interesting (and of course the creation of the whole universe in this game in itself, too).
What's that derailing thing again ?
Very very interesting, although I think to use COMPLETE Lojban language, instead of "REDUCED/SIMPLIFIED/MODIFIED" one, would be more interesting. In the same way I think that to obtain more international success it would be better to use English, instead of French (of course website can have all in dual English and French pages), because most people in world use English as international language. If someone, who can't speak French, finds a page in French (and not translated to English) he would be in inferiority.
The more interesting part in Lojban aren't words BUT language structure, the powerful way it can construct logical sentences.
In any case it is a interesting project.
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@oskda Your Royal-<forgot-the-name>-institution kept the written language close to the spoken one. That makes it easier for learners to pronounce the words correctly.
In English, they were preserving the spelling, so that it's easier to see the etymology behind it. At least, that's whta's said now, when asked for the advantage. And I think, - given that the English vocabulary is rather roman - that actually makes it easier to learn (for the European corpus academia used to latin thus recognizing the words and dealing a lot in writing).
Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, RAE) was founded in 1713, imitating French (Académie française) and Italian (Accademia della Crusca). Obviously RAE has helped and fixed language since then, but Spanish/Castilian language existed much before, and before RAE Spanish/Castilian language had very close correlation between spoken and written language. For example I can get a copy of original Don Quixote published in 1605 and read/spell it (very few phonemes have changed).
In 1492 was published the first work dedicated to the Spanish language and its rules, and at the same time it is the first grammar of a modern European language to be published. Two centuries before RAE.
English language has no equivalent to Spanish/French/Italian academies, but IMO the problem is no that, but the historic creation and evolution of this language.
Even in English if you try to create a modern written language equivalent to spoken language, in the way it has a 100% correlation between spoken and written language, you encounter that English have 24 consonant phonemes and... HOW MANY VOWELS?
Like 12 ?? So like 36 phonemes.
In modern Latin alphabet we have only 26 letters, so that would be a problem: you need to add extra symbols or a lot of new letters or combine letters to have 36 equivalences. So if someone wanted to regulate English so correlation be perfect or near perfect, that would be very problematic.
