This week has been a very interesting week for me so far. The imaginary language industry idea for me stems back to learning combinatoric strategies in my mathematics degree 23 years ago. Around 11 years later I learned how to apply these skills in cyber security and over the last 11 years I have been refining my skills in cyber security. In 2023, I got the idea of using these skills for decentralised cyber security and then I have spent the last 3 years postulating how best to use decentralised cyber security skills. In recent months, I have been interested in seeing if these skills can be used for protecting dying languages and studying the psychological politics of working with family members affected by dying languages. Yesterday, I had a eureka moment and realised that using decentralised cyber security for imaginary languages escapes a lot of the psychological politics of working with family members of dying languages and marries the cyber security opportunities with my 20+ year history of studying neologisms with domain names. I could see how working with imaginary languages means working with an entrepreneurial community and this could be an entry point to advancing the possible opportunities with decentralised cybersecurity with a patient form of investor who knew how to remain shrewd in developing the market at a slow steady pace where investment opportunities could be optimised.
The curious twist on this market opportunity is that on Sunday the Pope released a white paper where he was preaching against #TowerOfBabel culture taking over in the world and launching a vision for an imaginary language market in the same week is an interesting twist on the #UnilangualCulture VS #MultilingualCulture debate.
Where I see the imaginary language market opportunity opening up is with the short brandable domain names. A good quality language needs thousands of words and unique brandable domains can potentially end up being very valuable if adoption rates are high.
Where I see the financial opportunity in imaginary languages is through cyber security techniques ensuring that markets and media systems subsidise communities who use the language. This is where I believe there is potential to help communities work together to reduce the cost of living and reduce bullying. A language becomes a gateway to enrich the wealth of small communities.
Where I see myself is in advancing the mathematical field of #Glossomatics. This is a term I coined meaning a mathematician who specialises in language. I have 2 decades of work that I can pour into this field and this expertise can help expand this field in ways that can advance the depth, strength and stability of imaginary languages so that they can be transferred into powerful languages. If I can make some good progress in advancing this field, it may be a field of science that opens doors for domainers in the future.
Where I see domainers working on this is in building either small collections of brandable domains to flip within languages or large collections of domains to corner languages and build strong infrastructure around.
The way I see it, #ImaginaryLanguages is a patience game. You are dealing with large collections of domains and the infrastructure is slow to build. If this opportunity takes off there it may grow into a market of millions of domains. It was just a thought bubble for me yesterday but today it is starting to feel like I have crossed a major turning point in my life and while imaginary languages sounds crazy to many now, it may prove to be a hallmark of a respected industry in the future.
The curious twist on this market opportunity is that on Sunday the Pope released a white paper where he was preaching against #TowerOfBabel culture taking over in the world and launching a vision for an imaginary language market in the same week is an interesting twist on the #UnilangualCulture VS #MultilingualCulture debate.
Where I see the imaginary language market opportunity opening up is with the short brandable domain names. A good quality language needs thousands of words and unique brandable domains can potentially end up being very valuable if adoption rates are high.
Where I see the financial opportunity in imaginary languages is through cyber security techniques ensuring that markets and media systems subsidise communities who use the language. This is where I believe there is potential to help communities work together to reduce the cost of living and reduce bullying. A language becomes a gateway to enrich the wealth of small communities.
Where I see myself is in advancing the mathematical field of #Glossomatics. This is a term I coined meaning a mathematician who specialises in language. I have 2 decades of work that I can pour into this field and this expertise can help expand this field in ways that can advance the depth, strength and stability of imaginary languages so that they can be transferred into powerful languages. If I can make some good progress in advancing this field, it may be a field of science that opens doors for domainers in the future.
Where I see domainers working on this is in building either small collections of brandable domains to flip within languages or large collections of domains to corner languages and build strong infrastructure around.
The way I see it, #ImaginaryLanguages is a patience game. You are dealing with large collections of domains and the infrastructure is slow to build. If this opportunity takes off there it may grow into a market of millions of domains. It was just a thought bubble for me yesterday but today it is starting to feel like I have crossed a major turning point in my life and while imaginary languages sounds crazy to many now, it may prove to be a hallmark of a respected industry in the future.
