People have, most notably Esperanto, which was designed as a universal second language, and which has very simple and flexible grammar, completely phonetic pronunciation, etc... I definitely agree with and appreciate the concept, even if Esperanto itself wasn't perfect (for one thing, the guy who created it only had deep knowledge of about five languages, all European, and it has a major bias towards speakers of European languages).
This has been done too, with the international phonetic alphabet, which is used in linguistics and suchlike.
Originally Posted by Elin
People have, most notably Esperanto, which was designed as a universal second language, and which has very simple and flexible grammar, completely phonetic pronunciation, etc... I definitely agree with and appreciate the concept, even if Esperanto itself wasn't perfect (for one thing, the guy who created it only had deep knowledge of about five languages, all European, and it has a major bias towards speakers of European languages).
