Vitalik Buterin
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https://twitter.com/inversebrah/status/1779367565942468871 I would challenge the premise: English is "the BTC of languages" in some ways (mainly: network effect), but not others. I think the best candidate for "the BTC of languages" in spirit and design philosophy is toki pona.
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Vitalik Buterin
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A vocabulary so small it can fit onto a single poster. And yet, it's very difficult to use it to actually express non-trivial things.
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that's basically an icon set
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Vitalik Buterin
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Yes, pretty much all written language is either a representation of sounds (alphabet/syllabary) or a representation of meaning (icons)? (Or sometimes both, like how Chinese characters often have one component representing approximate pronunciation and another representing meaning category)
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fascinating how on web/any digital interface we’ve got our own universal icon set / language that each of us learned and understands, making it a universal global language in a way? And different styles of those icons are like different typefaces we’re used to seeing 🤯 Haven’t thought about it this way.
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