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And now for something completely different... again...

We’ve all heard of aUI, right? A theoretical universal language constructed by Viennese psychoanalyst W. John Weilgart, with a dictionary of over 11111 words compiled by whoever Andrea G. Weilgart Patten is. It was designed to construct words from singular elements of meaning, each with their own intuitive grapheme and phoneme, arranged such that all homophonous words are also related. The lofty idea of the language of space is that these elements are so fundamental it could be used and understood effectively and efficiently by any intelligent creature in the universe, hence its title: the Language of Space. O△~

I… LOVE THIS IDEA! Love it to bits! It’s a beautiful intersection of linguistics, psychology, the philosophy of consciousness, symbolism, and emergence. It’s exactly the kind of project a nerd like me would work on if I believed I could and had thought of it first. But does aUI actually achieve that idea? I have several doubts.

So great was that initial inspiration that I took it upon myself to help it over its stumbling blocks, to produce... aUI2. Really.

I am aware of efforts such as this which aims to tweak the vocabulary and grammar until it's a bit more bearable, but that doesn't satisfy me. It's not up to the VISION, you understand! Unity, precision, so irrefutable it could be the words of reality itself. The language of space and time and all that ever was. I'll let you be the judge...