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The Triple Lock Standard
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.” → “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. |
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Triple Lock Application Guide
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Complete Triple Lock Form
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Ethical fundraising
Your board has formally adopted the Guidelines for Charitable Organisations on Fundraising from the Public. Your staff, volunteers and anyone else fundraising on your behalf are fully trained on the requirements and you have implemented controls to ensure that all your fundraising practices are fully in line with the "Guidelines" and any related Codes of Practice. You review and report annually on compliance.
Annual and Financial Reporting
Your charity prepares a trustees annual report and financial statements in full compliance with the Charity SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice under FRS102) and makes them easily available to the public on your website.
Read our blog "What is the Charity SORP" for more information on what you should be looking for when reviewing a charities financial accounts in regards to transparent reporting.
Governance
Your board has formally adopted the 'Charities Governance Code' as devised by the CRA,
This means your charity complies with the six principles of governance, has reached the core standards expected, and attained additional standards that reflect a more complex structure, if relevant.
