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Ships of Hagoth is a digital-first literary magazine featuring creative nonfiction and theoretical essays by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Where other LDS-centric publications often look inward at the LDS tradition, we seek literary works that look outward through the curious, charitable lens of faith.

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“Me le go dom.” → “I went home.” “Ve tu stude Lex?” → “Will you study Lex?”

| Feature | Lex Design | Comparison | |---------|------------|-------------| | | 20 consonants, 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u). No tones, no complex consonant clusters. | Similar to Toki Pona (simpler) but more than Esperanto (23 consonants). | | Orthography | Fully phonetic Latin script. One letter = one sound. No digraphs (except ng ). | Cleaner than English, identical to Esperanto. | | Grammar | Strictly isolating (no inflection). Tense indicated by particles ( le past, ve future). Plural marked by plu . | Much simpler than Esperanto (which has accusative case and agreement). | | Word Order | SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) – like English, Chinese, Spanish. | Neutral, widely understood. | | Lexicon | 60% Romance, 25% Germanic, 15% mixed (Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin). Root words chosen for recognizability. | Heavily Eurocentric (like Esperanto), but with minor global inclusions. | | Morphology | No affixes for parts of speech. Context determines if “fast” is adjective or adverb. | Radical simplicity – but ambiguous in complex sentences. |

1. Executive Summary The Lex Language Project is an ambitious, community-driven effort to create a simplified, logical, and neutral international auxiliary language (IAL). Spearheaded by AI researcher and podcaster Lex Fridman, the project aims to break down communication barriers by designing a language that is easy to learn for speakers of any native tongue. Unlike Esperanto or Interlingua, Lex starts from a "first principles" approach to grammar and lexicon, prioritizing regularity, phonetic spelling, and cultural neutrality.

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We are hoping—for “one must needs hope”—for creative nonfiction, theoretical essays, and craft essays that seek radical new ways to explore and express theological ideas; that are, like Hagoth, “exceedingly curious.”

We favor creative nonfiction that can trace its lineage back to Michel de Montaigne. Whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. 

As for theoretical essays: we welcome work that playfully and charitably explores the wide world of arts & letters—especially works created from differing religious, non-religious, and even irreligious perspectives—through the peculiar lens of a Latter-day Saint.

We read and publish submissions as quickly as possible, and accept simultaneous submissions. 

Lex Language Project May 2026

“Me le go dom.” → “I went home.” “Ve tu stude Lex?” → “Will you study Lex?”

| Feature | Lex Design | Comparison | |---------|------------|-------------| | | 20 consonants, 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u). No tones, no complex consonant clusters. | Similar to Toki Pona (simpler) but more than Esperanto (23 consonants). | | Orthography | Fully phonetic Latin script. One letter = one sound. No digraphs (except ng ). | Cleaner than English, identical to Esperanto. | | Grammar | Strictly isolating (no inflection). Tense indicated by particles ( le past, ve future). Plural marked by plu . | Much simpler than Esperanto (which has accusative case and agreement). | | Word Order | SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) – like English, Chinese, Spanish. | Neutral, widely understood. | | Lexicon | 60% Romance, 25% Germanic, 15% mixed (Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin). Root words chosen for recognizability. | Heavily Eurocentric (like Esperanto), but with minor global inclusions. | | Morphology | No affixes for parts of speech. Context determines if “fast” is adjective or adverb. | Radical simplicity – but ambiguous in complex sentences. | lex language project

1. Executive Summary The Lex Language Project is an ambitious, community-driven effort to create a simplified, logical, and neutral international auxiliary language (IAL). Spearheaded by AI researcher and podcaster Lex Fridman, the project aims to break down communication barriers by designing a language that is easy to learn for speakers of any native tongue. Unlike Esperanto or Interlingua, Lex starts from a "first principles" approach to grammar and lexicon, prioritizing regularity, phonetic spelling, and cultural neutrality. “Me le go dom

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