. Introduction: Principles for Maximizing Representation

The one with the white, dry, cratered land, and the suited people, and the blue-white globe hanging over it all.That picture.The picture, if only one picture in all the world were to survive."That," Harry said, his voice trembling because he couldn't quite keep the pride out, "is what the Earth looks like from the Moon."

"You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy!

This fic is widely considered to have really hit its stride starting at around Chapter 5.

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Lojban is probably the constructed language closest to IEML (it is univocalwith a non-ambiguous syntax), but it was designed to be spoken and it doesn’thave computable semantics

The IEML Manifesto

IEML Grammar

3.2.2 The three classesAll natural languages contain differentclassesof units of meaning such as :nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, markers of gender,number, case, tense, mode, person, etc. The classes of verbal and nominal unitsare universal. Moreover it must be noted that there exist not only words butalso propositions that are verbal or nominal. In IEML, there exist only threeclasses of units in the paradigmatic and syntagmatic circuits : verbal, nominaland auxiliary units, but these classes can translate all those of natural languages.

Consider for example the phrase “a student learns mathematics”*(y.a.-’ b.-j.-s.y.-’ E:E:T:.-’+y.a.-’ d.a.-s.a.-f.o.-’ E:E:S:.-’)**TermsE:E:S:.nominative (subject)E:E:T:.accusative (object complement)y.a.-learnb.-j.-s.y.-’mathematicsd.a.-s.a.-f.o.-’student1. The first clause (*y.a.-’ b.-j.-s.y.-’ E:E:T:.-’*) says that “mathematics” arepredicated on the verb “learn” on the mode of “the object”.2. The second clause (*y.a.-’ d.a.-s.a.-f.o.-’ E:E:S:.-’**) says that “the student”is predicated on the verb “learn” on the mode of the “subject”.The preceding example illustrates the three rolesin the syntagmatic circuits

The question of thecalculability of human languagewas from then on present in the background of all my work and would not leave meuntil I found – in IEML – a satisfactory solution to it.

I decidedthat verbals would be represented by vowels, and nominals would be represented byconsonants. Since my combinatory ended up with 10 vowels and the Romanalphabet only has six, I adopted long vowels (wo, wa, wu, we) to avoid causingproblems for users whose keyboards had no accents.