TIL when Peano wrote the 1890s textbook that established...

TIL when Peano wrote the 1890s textbook that established much of modern mathematical notation, he did the first few editions in French and the 5th in Latino sine flexione — a simplified Latin of his own creation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_sine_flexione

Like 5 Sep 2023 at 12:46 | Open on berlin.social

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Devine Lu Linvega

@jack I didn't know that, that's amazing. It reminds me of Polgar.

5 Sep 2023 at 15:09 | Open on merveilles.town

Jedi

@jack Interesting! If we could also drop gender and declension that'd be handy heh... it's also kinda neat that reading the "language examples" of the Wikipedia page isn't that tough!

5 Sep 2023 at 15:46 | Open on mstdn.ca

Jack Rusher

@jedidja Yeah, quite legible! My favorite of these “international conlangs” is the second Interlingua from the 30s — way more aesthetically pleasing than Esperanto 🙂

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

5 Sep 2023 at 16:29 | Open on berlin.social

Devine Lu Linvega

@jack Anyone looking for an example of what that looks like

5 Sep 2023 at 15:47 | Open on merveilles.town

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