Language capabilities

[Cordilow]

Has anyone out there, besides myself, tried to make a 'near-perfect' language, with the following criteria being what constitutes 'near-perfect'?

* A language capable of allowing the speaker to be as specific or as vague as the speaker wants or needs to be.
* A language where implication is rarely needed, and usually in small amounts when it is.
* A phonetic language using the full spectrum of sounds
* A language without unintentional ambiguity
* A language without useless conventions (every feature is functional)

Anyway, the language I have in mind has many capabilities, many of which are corrupt in most real languages.  Ambiguity resolved by implication is what I mean by corrupt, here.  I've already made most of it, and it works.  You might be interested in knowing that it is easier to learn than Latin, due to the lack of ambiguity, but the amount of inflections are tremendous (although they are easily learned; and they don't ever clash with each other).

Anyway, tell me if you've tried this, and we can talk some time.  I don't want to say much more than I've said here in public, for the moment.

[vdewey]

I think my biggest pet peeve in english is that it doesn't have a neutral pronoun, possessive etc... I hate him/her and he/she in my writing. I end up just putting they or one and it sounds pretentious.
Lets make a united order for establishing one in the english language. My grammar teacher said this would never work =[ what can we do?

[Cordilow]

What can we do?

Well, there are the work-arounds:
1. say 'one' instead of he/she (but this doesn't always work and it seems a little annoying to some)
2. write in a different language (like Finnish)
3. make your own language (like I'm doing)
4. be gender-biased (I don't recommend this one)
5. say 'they' (even though it's not right)
6. make up new English words for what you seek, write a book that uses them a lot, and make sure it becomes too famous to ignore.
7. Reform the government such that the United States will define what is and isn't correct in its English language (I understand this actually works in a certain country, despite how doubtful of the idea some American linguistics textbooks seem to be), and then have them create the new words.
8. Just don't use pronouns.  Maybe there is a gender-neutral noun you can use instead--like 'person'; this is kind of like saying 'one', though.
9. Say 'it' (but then you may offend both genders).
10. Do something else.

Anyway, I think any 'created' language, unless it is aiming to not look like an 'artificial language', and there is purpose in doing otherwise, should create non-gender pronouns.