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As some of you may have seen, I am working on a constructed universal language called Sevencube (the link is at the bottom of my posts). It's more than a language, but also a learning and teaching tool, which can be useful if one is teaching beginning students, especially if you don't know their language very well. My free system allows people to converse (at a rudimetary level, and in any language) quickly and simply. (PM me if you want help).

Recently various programmers have made me aware of the potentials of this language system as a computer programming tool, which could, in effect, help create a new kind of interface less like Windows and more like the conversational LCARS computer from Star Trek. So I am expanding this language's universal vocabulary, and I am also refining a more grammatical English version too. (Other people from other languages are able to do the same!).

My questions, should anyone care to answer:

1. what would you consider the more vital grammatical techniques of English? What can you give up and still hold a reasonable, comfortable dialogue? [Bear in mind that the computer would understand only one meaning for each word--that means if we use "get" to mean "acquire", then if we want to say "get out" we have to say "please leave"].

2. would people willingly simplify their own vocabulary in order to simplify the interface with the computer, and interactions with other people in other languages? Or does the idea of clarity seem more like "dumbing everybody down"? Would we expect to have utter conversational freedom and really expect the computer to keep up?

Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to offer a response.