Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Set English

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Set English Wikipedia[edit]

submitted verification final decision
This proposal has been rejected.
This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page.

The closing committee member provided the following comment:

The Wikimedia Foundation does not seek to develop new linguistic entities; there must be an extensive body of works in that language. Unfortunately, this language was invented by the proposer, and has no community, audience, body of works, or standard code. It is not established and has no native speakers. —{admin} Pathoschild 22:02:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Proposal summary
  • Language details: Set English (— ISO—)
  • Editing community: 71.121.93.171 (P), MSpota
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    name if you are a native speaker of this language.
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One day I was bored so I made this language. I it's targeted to someone with autism, specifically those who have difficulty in lingual communication, but was made so that it's still easy to read and write to an English speaker. It's pretty simple, it take only a few minutes to learn. It is basically just comparing nouns to nouns. It uses set theory and logic symbols (sorry, I don't know the ascii codes): is a member of, is a proper subset of, is equal to,is not a member of, is not a proper subset of, is not equal to,intersection,union,if...then, all meaning the same thing as it does in set theory and logic. Additionally all English adjectives mean a thing of that kind in set English (for example:'red' means 'red thing'). I personlly have had success with this. It also would make translations a lot easier sense the grammar is so simple. I realize that this is an awkward request but this really works well. 71.121.93.171 01:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments in favour[edit]

  • I will pronounce myself not completely in favor until this language is clearly defined. As the user said, it will be targeted to a range of readers that would otherwise not be able to understand any other language. This might me targeted to someone with autism, but also to people who suffered a stroke, unable to write or speak, except for a couple of words or ideas, and that will find useful this new language. MSpota. 15:33, 1 February 2007 (GMT-6)

Arguments against[edit]

General discussion[edit]

It (and every other request) is waiting for the language subcommittee to get ready. —{admin} Pathoschild 20:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Looking at the available documents, I cannot but conclude, that this is going to be a lengthy and protracted process. It seems that the committee has an idea what it wants to achieve, but the question how to achieve it remains to be solved.  ;-) --Johannes Rohr 21:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]