Standard Information Transfer and Record Protocol

Standard Information Transfer and Record Protocol
Writing system	Latin script
Official status
Spoken in	The Complex
Regulated by	The Complex
Speaker
Endonym	0{qM
Number of speakers	1
Technical information
Usage	Standard communication done by The Complex
Language code	SIT

The Standard Information Transfer and Record Protocol, SITRP, or 0{qM is a language used by The Complex for recording and transferring information.

Concepts

SITRP consists of a global list of concepts, each concept assigned a concept number, which is a number between 0 and 68'574'961 (92⁴). Every concept represents a single object, event, or action. This list is maintained by the Complex, and translations and descriptions of each concept is provided. The concept numbers are assigned arbitrarily; there is no systematic reason for why each concept has its specific number.

Orthography

SITRP's orthography purely uses printable ASCII characters, excluding space. The characters ( and ) are reserved for grouping (see the Grammar section), and the rest are used for encoding concept numbers. Each character represents a digit in base-92, according to the following table:

Character	Value in Decimal
!	0
"	1
#	2
$	3
%	4
&	5
'	6
*	7
+	8
,	9
-	10
.	11
/	12
0	13
1	14
2	15
3	16
4	17
5	18
6	19
7	20
8	21
9	22
:	23
;	24
<	25
=	26
>	27
?	28
@	29
A	30
B	31
C	32
D	33
E	34
F	35
G	36
H	37
I	38
J	39
K	40
L	41
M	42
N	43
O	44
P	45
Q	46
R	47
S	48
T	49
U	50
V	51
W	52
X	53
Y	54
Z	55
[	56
\	57
]	58
^	59
_	60
`	61
a	62
b	63
c	64
d	65
e	66
f	67
g	68
h	69
i	70
j	71
k	72
l	73
m	74
n	75
o	76
p	77
q	78
r	79
s	80
t	81
u	82
v	83
w	84
x	85
y	86
z	87
{	88
|	89
}	90
~	91

Grammar

Every SITRP sentence is an ordered triplet of concepts, either raw concept numbers or compound concepts. The triplet (A, B, C) can be though of as a directed edge from A to B, with the type of that edge being characterized by C. This is somewhat analogous to a Subject-Object-Verb word order, but with the ability to use any word as either a verb or noun, and without transitive verbs. For example, the sentence R:pz2/3gMXy@ is broken up into three parts: R:pz (TheZipCreator), 2/3g (The Complex), and MXy@ (Archon). So, this translates to "TheZipCreator relates to the Complex characterized by Archon", or "TheZipCreator is the Archon of the Complex". The former form can be notated more succinctly as TheZipCreator → The Complex : Archon, where → represents "relates to", and : represents "characterized by".

SITRP does not have a copula; instead to denote the existence of something, one draws an edge from the concept to the concept for Reality (yT9r), characterized by set membership (.+TP). In general, set membership is used for many things other languages might have a verb for.

Compounds

A triplet can be surrounded by parenthesis (( and )) to group it into a compound concept. For example, while 61NGk[M$uV!? which is Player → Block : Placement and means "Players place blocks", (61NGk[M$uV!?) means "The action of players placing blocks". Then, it can be used in a larger triplet, such as (61NGk[M$uV!?)h~+1.+TP, which is (Player → Block : Placement) → Set of possible actions : Membership, and means "Players placing blocks is a member of the set of possible actions", or "Players can place blocks."

Sample Texts

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