We all accept English as a gibberish language collectively co-constructed in real time across the globe. It's functional. It's cultural. It's an ungodly mishmash of borrowed words and sounds. It makes no sense, but it gets the job done.
Some folks like the OED attempt to maintain control and impose order, but it's a futile resistance.
unglish seeks to bring the insanity of English to its natural conclusion: infinite gibberish, self-replicating, in dynamic equilibrium. All while sounding kind of "english" when you squint your ears.
It's a language that sounds like english, but isn't... yet.
To build many worlds of impossible to understand gibberish, that each have a graceful internal coherence. There will be heaps of poetry and prose. Conversations and disagreements. Idle thoughts and musings.
But, if we do it right, its true meaning will be impregnababble.
unglish is versioned using a baseIDGAF system. We start with `a`. And then we'll cycle through `e`, `i`, `o` and `u`. And then we'll loop back to `a` and add `b` (the lowest indexed english consonant) to get: `ab`.
At some point, we'll add spaces and punction. And eventually, if we iterate high enough, maybe we'll have written a novel.
Only me and you.
depatchedmode
Great question. I'll be as brief and vague as I can. Present state is shown obliquely.
🏗️: Words → Definitions → Grammar → Writing.
👂: IPA english phonemes → other phonetic systems → all phonemes.
🗣️: SpeechSynthesisAPI → SSML? → Custom Voices?
🧮: 1 → 2 → ♾️
All told, I think the whole project witll take 50 years, give or take a century.
Presently, we're optimizing for TTFP
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