u/BrightDog1807

I came across a site that proposes calling pork "pigmeat," beef "cowmeat," etc. For "rationality."

At first I laughed. But then I had a vision...

We shouldn't stop there. We should simply add "-meat" to every animal to describe its flesh. For ultimate clarity.

• Chicken → Chickenmeat (obvious)

• Turkey → Turkeymeat

• Salmon → Salmonmeat

• Ostrich → Ostrichmeat

This revolution might be the most efficient language hack or the coolest Sci-Fi concept ever.

What would YOU "-meat"? Let's hear your best (or worst) "-meat" terms in the comments!

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I stumbled on something that feels like it sits right on the boundary between a thought experiment, language reform, and a conlang — and I immediately thought of this sub.

There's this small site called EWRI (English Word Reform Initiative) that's basically a community-driven effort to optimize English vocabulary for learnability. The core idea is dead simple: replace etymologically opaque loanwords (mostly Norman French) with transparent, self-explanatory compounds. Think Anglish, but crowdsourced and with a scientific, rational vibe rather than a purist one.

The classic example they use is pork.

We all know the historical quirk: after 1066, the French-speaking nobility ate porc, which became pork on their plates, while the English-speaking peasants raised pigs. That disconnect has annoyed learners for centuries. Their proposal? Just call it pigmeat. Same logic applies to beef → cowmeat, mutton → sheepmeat, venison → deermeat. The meaning becomes instantly guessable, and you don't need to memorize a separate lexical set for animals vs. food.

What grabbed me wasn't just the proposals, but the mechanism:

• Anyone can submit an alternative word, with a rationale ("it's more logical because...").
• The community can upvote/vouch for the ones that make sense.
• There's a live activity feed, so it feels like watching a language evolve in real time by consensus.

The website’s motto is "Rational. Scientific. Open." and it honestly feels like a conlang that doesn't know it's a conlang — it's modifying a natlang from the inside, using very conlang-y principles (regularity, transparency, derivational logic).

I’m genuinely curious where you guys think this fits:

• Is this a form of diachronic conlanging (like an engineered future English)?
• Is it closer to language planning (like Anglish, Newspeak, or Basic English)?
• If someone actually used these words in daily speech, would they be speaking a constructed dialect?