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911 fired the first shot of a war between the rich and the poor. Both sides disagree on everything except the conflict will be enduring. The rich, while paying a lot of lip services on financial assistance, is heartset on military pacification of the terrorism, which is the only thing left for the poor to do. But terrorism only feeds on oppression. Are we all going to wait until someone finds it justifiable to use weapon of mass destruction to end the conflict, along with the world.
Backing up one step would reveal to us the real difference between people of the world is technology. And technology is all soon to be done on computers.
On the surface, it appears that the rich has the monopoly on computing -- all eyes are on Bill Gates. But looking closely shows the real monopoly is English.
It's easy to make computer easy to use, especially it's keeping on getting more powerful for people to simply its use. But can we make English easy to use?
As is, English is very difficult even for English-speaking technical types. Our problem, fortunately, deals only with computing. Now, we don't really need to worry about speaking it correctly, which is the single greatest obstacle for most non-English speaking people. Then we also don't need to worry about grammar and proper composition, which has kept most engineering students from taking English-1A in college. And finally, computer's preference for systematicness points to a minimal set of vocaburary, with all synonyms of the selected words are to be avoided.
Starting with the standard Basic English, all the words used in the natural language programming by the computer are assembled to produce a univeral langauge set. This is a 1500-word set. As the natural language programming is more than 50% completed for general computing, it is estimated that a 3000-word set would ultimately be adequate for normal computing.
Let's start throwing some computing skills at the poor, instead of money and bombs.
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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE FOR COMPUTING
