Friday, May 21, 2010

A test.

Today, in place of the recognizable Google logo is a fully-playable, albeit somewhat squished, version of Pac-Man.

To play, you select "insert coin," which is in place of the "I'm feeling Lucky" button. Click twice and Ms. Pac-Man appear next to Pac-Man. However, only Mr. Pac-Man seem to move; Ms. Pac-Man inexplicably stay behind and eat ghost pl. that inadvertently run into her.

Control pl. is, naturally, your mouse or arrow key pl.

* Well the squished is a problem. In theory, it can be treated as an adjective. In Chinese, we have the similar thing by turning a verb into an adjective by adding an extra word after the verb. The plural for noun is done in the similar way. I guess the only difference is that in Chinese, there is no irregular.

The rules.

  1. All nouns are in single form. Plural are indicated with (pl.) following the noun. We might decide to use the popular form though. For example, using data is probably make more sense than using datum.
  2. Almost all verb wills be used with the native form.
  3. All 'be' verbs will be replaced with 'is' (this is chosen arbitrarily). The passive tense will always use 'be'.

The start

Well. Check the article 'English plural at Wikipedia'. Do I remember these? No, I don't. How about the irregular verb? I have trouble too.

My mother tongue is Chinese and it does not have all these. Well, I understand that there are other features in Chinese that could make it a difficult language too. So, I am not trying to argue a language's merits. So, please don't feel offended.

With this blog, I will try to setup some new rules for English and I will write articles that following these new rules and I will see if I can still communicate with my readers. Of cause, the idea of modifying or creating language is not new, you can found them in the Wikipedia article: Artificial Language.

My next post will be reserved as rule depository and I will keep it updated to reflect all the rule changes.