Part 2: Various perspectives on the popular list — Based on the Top2000 Database we already used in part one, I try to give some other perspectives. Instead of a top 40 of hits of the moment, I create various top 40 lists on all editions of the top2000. By Score Highest score over the years In this category the number one of the list of…

Part 1: Various perspectives on the popular list — In many countries, there are lists with the best music of all time. Think of the lists of Rolling Stone Magazine like the 500 greatest songs or albums of all time. In the Netherlands, the most popular list is the Top2000. …

Introduction — In the first half of the 20th century, it was relatively popular to invent and speak artificial languages. Volapük (1879–1880) and Esperanto (1887) were one of the first invented. Later followed Ido (1907) and Interlingua (1951). …

Why do we need Uro? — I am a proud European. I grew up in the Netherlands. When I was young, I spend my vacations in Spain and France. I studied in Germany, married a Polish girl, and now I am working in an international company with Dutch, Serbian and Portuguese. That traveling is so easy…

What is the design of the language? — Computer scientist Robert C. Martin (aka uncle Bob) writes in his book Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design that every time a programming language uses a new language construct that they take something away. …

Teams, voting and chatbots — Zamenhof developed a fairly well-designed language, but at the end it was created by a single person. He was not able to know all European languages on a mother tongue level. No one, of course, can know all the European languages and create a derivative language from them that is…

How are new words made? — The vocabulary of Esperanto is mostly derived from Latin and German. Interlingua already uses more, primarily English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese and secondarily German and Russian. In Uro we use even more languages and also include Slavic languages. In this last chapter, we define the rules to create new…

In the fifties, people imagined kitchen robots and flying cars. This didn’t happen, but what did happen were kitchen appliances and computers. It turned out that these devices were not very intelligent, but they were very practical. So we adapted our lives to these technologies. The first computers were operated…