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I've now made a Slack for it: unlws.slack.com. Invite link: https://join.slack.com/t/ulws/shared_invite/zt-ewevpfmf-s1r3...

There is now: https://join.slack.com/t/ulws/shared_invite/zt-ewevpfmf-s1r3...

Thanks! People are complex. It's my personal site, not a topical one, so it likewise has on it basically whatever I think would be interesting to put up. ;) I'd welcome any feedbac…

We have absolutely no interest in wide-scale usage, let alone if it were to come at the expense of fully exploring what a natively-2D language is like. Narrative is an utterly diff…

I have two concerns with that, above the (major) technical challenges: 1. we wanted this to be writable using colored pens 2. if we add a dimension, we must add it for real. #2 is …

I believe that *Pad¹ does what you describe. In multi-user mode, it has an option to show each contributor's writing in a separate color. (I'm not sure if one can pick the color, t…

PS I really like the garden vs stream metaphor for UNLWS-native "conversation". I agree that it's very apt. It nicely captures the spirit of non-linear interaction. Thank you for t…

Interesting. I've long been interested in ways to make systems more pro-social, but I hadn't previously thought of UNLWS in that context. Thank you for giving me a new idea to mull…

Thanks for reporting the broken link. Alex has fixed it in the document. The content is now at https://000024.org/conlang/relay19/index.html Google "conlang relay" to learn more ab…

Another way to express the latter is that if something becomes too popular, upper socioeconomic classes will want to adopt something else, so that they can preserve a class distinc…

Can we even distinguish those in practice? AFAICT its main problem was being so general-purpose that it was hard to describe as a compelling use case. Of course, I also don't subsc…

D'aww. /blush

That seems to me to be more like multithreaded linear than non-linear per se. There are multiple linear components, and it's not obvious how they emergently interact — but they don…

Actually IIRC, that was our inspiration for it. ;)

You're describing Google Wave¹, which (sadly) was killed as unsuccessful. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

… or because of pure happenstance, i.e. it just didn't come up? Extant natural languages (including dead ones) do not come anywhere close to coming the entire ambit of what could h…

FWIW, we deliberately decided to have no phonetic representation at all, to avoid any linearizing influence. Yes, it would need a large number of glyphs. Not so many as speculated …

Anguilla permits them. I had to buy off a squatter. But Sai is literally my full name (I'm mononymous), at the time it was affordable to buy off the squatter, and the per year regi…

Not really. Programming is very linear in all forms I know¹. 1. There's a start point. UNLWS has none. 2. There's a mandatory canonical traversal order of the text (the compiled in…

UNLWS can definitely be described as being based on "predicate calculus" (as in formal logic). I personally have never felt it to be a very apt or helpful description — I think of …

Could you elaborate? How do you see this as relating to NLP? FWIW, I very strongly recommend Rick Morneau's monograph Lexical semantics of a machine translation interlingua ¹. It w…

Yes, we're still working on it. (E.g. we were discussing the concept "only" a couple days ago.) Right now, our main blocker is technical: we want a JavaScript based method for rend…

Tracking: if you're asking a question or otherwise anticipating where the other will add, there are relatively few places to look. Also, we use different colors per author in multi…

See also Ouwi¹ by Schuyler Duveen, which is one of the very few other non-linear written languages. It takes a somewhat different approach, and (IIRC) has some examples of conversa…

Part of the inspiration for UNLWS was Heptapod B from Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life , from which Arrival was made. See also my essays Non-Linear Fully Two-Dimensional Writing Sys…