ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Globotype

Okay, so imagine a bunch of letters, like the ones in the alphabet. Now pretend that these letters are like little puzzle pieces that can connect to each other. When you connect them in a certain way, you can make words!

Now imagine that instead of just having one set of letters, there are lots and lots of different sets of letters from all around the world. Each set of letters makes words in a different language!

That's kind of like what globotype is. It's a way of taking all the different types of letters from different languages and putting them together in a way that makes it easy to use them all together. It's like a big puzzle where all the pieces fit perfectly together.

The goal of globotype is to make it easy for people who speak different languages to communicate with each other, even if they don't know each other's language very well. So instead of having to learn a whole new language just to talk to someone, you can use globotype to write out words that other people can understand, even if they speak a different language than you!
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