Category
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Lingua Franca Nova
auxiliary constructed language, originally created by C. George Boeree, and largely based on a Romance substrate partially creolized then modified by some evolutive rules of simplification
cat café
cat-themed eatery
APG system
1998 system of plant taxonomy
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
world day
2000-watt society
political model envisaging the average First World citizen reducing their average energy usage to no more than 2000 watts by 2050
Combined DNA Index System
United States national DNA database
Rohloff Speedhub
internal hub gear for bicycles
animal cafe
café where customers can also interact with animals
Kēlen
Kēlen () is a constructed language created by Sylvia Sotomayor in 1998. The language is designed to be a truly alien language by violating a key linguistic universal — namely that all human languages have verbs. In Kēlen, relationships between noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four relationals. According to Sotomayor, these relationals perform the functions of verbs but lack any of the semantic content. However, the semantic content found in common verbs, such as those that are semantic primes, can also be found in Kēlen's relationals, which calls into question whethe
Globish (Gogate)
simplified constructed language related to, but independent of, standard English
New Deal
workfare programme in the United Kingdom
Volvo P2 platform
motor vehicle platform