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The dream of a universal language
In the 17th century, philosophers reacted against the diversity of multilingual knowledge. John Wilkins and Leibniz tried to develop artificial, logical languages to replace the loss of Latin as a shared interlingua for science.
Many considered Chinese characters a worthy model. This constant dream of perfect communication goes back to Babel and forward to Klingon.
Yet back in the real world, the translation workload kept growing...
The dream of a universal language
In the 17th century, philosophers reacted against the diversity of multilingual knowledge. John Wilkins and Leibniz tried to develop artificial, logical languages to replace the loss of Latin as a shared interlingua for science.
Many considered Chinese characters a worthy model. This constant dream of perfect communication goes back to Babel and forward to Klingon.
Yet back in the real world, the translation workload kept growing...