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| Feature | Lex Design | Comparison | |---------|------------|-------------| | | 20 consonants, 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u). No tones, no complex consonant clusters. | Similar to Toki Pona (simpler) but more than Esperanto (23 consonants). | | Orthography | Fully phonetic Latin script. One letter = one sound. No digraphs (except ng ). | Cleaner than English, identical to Esperanto. | | Grammar | Strictly isolating (no inflection). Tense indicated by particles ( le past, ve future). Plural marked by plu . | Much simpler than Esperanto (which has accusative case and agreement). | | Word Order | SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) – like English, Chinese, Spanish. | Neutral, widely understood. | | Lexicon | 60% Romance, 25% Germanic, 15% mixed (Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin). Root words chosen for recognizability. | Heavily Eurocentric (like Esperanto), but with minor global inclusions. | | Morphology | No affixes for parts of speech. Context determines if “fast” is adjective or adverb. | Radical simplicity – but ambiguous in complex sentences. |
1. Executive Summary The Lex Language Project is an ambitious, community-driven effort to create a simplified, logical, and neutral international auxiliary language (IAL). Spearheaded by AI researcher and podcaster Lex Fridman, the project aims to break down communication barriers by designing a language that is easy to learn for speakers of any native tongue. Unlike Esperanto or Interlingua, Lex starts from a "first principles" approach to grammar and lexicon, prioritizing regularity, phonetic spelling, and cultural neutrality. lex language project
“Me le go dom.” → “I went home.” “Ve tu stude Lex?” → “Will you study Lex?” | Feature | Lex Design | Comparison |
Found this looking for Neo2 system info, thanks for providing this!
Have been using Alphasmart 3000, Neo and Neo2 for decades w/o issue, so never bothered to collect tools or modify software or hardware. Changed my mind now that I encountered a
Bus Error Accessing: 0xE9BFEC11
Next Instruction At: 0x417F4E
following OS version prompt, but blocking any attempt to try to save or print text. Most of my search is future proofing atm., in case I’ll have more issues in the future and to find a daily backup solution. If you know of other tools or info not listed here, I’d much appreciate an update!
If the above error message gives any indication whether the problem is not just local (some part of SRAM corrupted, or not accessible) but global (SRAM contents are certain to be all gone) I can go ahead and change the CR2032 and reset the unit to get the OS restored. Otherwise, I have not yet given up on finding some USB protocol docs to see whether maybe a PC could access SRAM contents over USB.
Does AlphaSmart Manager still recognize your device? If so, it should be able to backup the text file contents to your computer. If not, the only method I can think of is to remove the CR2032, wait for a day or so, before replacing it to see if the error can be fixed.
Is there a compiled .OS3KAPP version of NeoFontTerminal?
Hi sam,
Yes, you can find the compiled applets in the Releases section of the github repository hosting the source code:
https://github.com/isotherm/betawise/releases