WE EACH NEED TO HAVE A DICTIONARY
by Anton Wills-Eve
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language reduced to seven words.
WE EACH NEED TO HAVE A DICTIONARY
Today’s prompt asks us to reduce all language to just seven words that would be indispensable. Well, as I assume the object of this exercise is so that everyboy could communicate with everbody else on earth, I suggest that someone should compile a lexicon including every tongue that is spoken on earth. This should be done digitally so that anything one wanted to say, or understand when spoken by someone else, could just be typed in the desired language of the speaker. Then everyone else would set their mobile computers, or whatever they were known as, to their own language and anything addressed to them would appear in a script they understood.
I expect that if this were to become a successful project the only seven words everyone would need to know and understand would be the title of this brief idea. God help hard working authors if it ever got off the ground.
AWE
Anton's Ideas 
Or perhaps to shorten the job, we all learn Esperanto?
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I like your idea for making people of all language able to communicate with each other. I wonder whether it would make us a more compassionate race.
I have been concerned about you. I haven’t had any emails, alerting me to your posts, and I ‘ve just realised why; I must have forgotten to click the follow button. I thought I had been following you for months.
I’m editing the book. I did some research and learned that the ideal wordcount for a memoir written by an unknown author is about 65,000. I’m trying to cut 10,00 owrds out, and if I can do it without losing any of the significant content it will sharpen my writing.
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Jane, so glad the book is going well. I haven’t blogged much for a couple of weeks as my quacks have been busy trying to find out how advanced my various unwanted conitions are. I shall know the full picture by Thursday. Meantime what energy I have goes into finishing a detective story which is virtually complete (90,000 words approx).Re your own opus, if you think any part of it is central to the whole don’t expunge it you’ll risk regretting it. The story itself is what matters most if you are content with it. Plough on, thanks for the concern and take care. Ciao. Anton.
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I somehow mangaed to miss your reply to my message, until now. I hope all went well yesterday.
A detective novel – I’m impressed. It takes a certain type of mind to come u with a plot fro that type of book.
All the best, Jane
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Hmm – typos. I must be over-tired.
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don’t worry I do them all time 🙂 things went not too bad but I’ll need several weeks of new treatment. Re my who dunnit I have set it in a school with a lot of romance and an incredibly convoluted plot. More for fun than anything. Cheers. Anton
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