Hi. My real name is Mark Hucko. I was born in Bratislava, Slovakia as the youngest of four children. My mother was a Czech teacher, Bozena Zizkova, and my father was a Slovak sculptor, Jan Hucko. I have lived in Slovakia until my 20th birthday when I have emigrated. Most of my adult life I have spent in Canada, Switzerland and in the United States.
I have studied at varioíus universities and colleges, including the University of Toronto, and the Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. I have studied computer programming and computer sciences, natural sciences and genetics.
My interest in linguistics comes after my first encounter with Esperanto when I was in my teens. The idea of an international, neutral language, such as Esperanto had appealed to me at that time. However while living in the English-speaking parts of North America I have realized that at least in the English speaking countries Esperanto has no chance, and the governments and institutions of those countries prefer to shove English down everybody's throat since that gives them competitive and cultural advantage in the World.
When I came to Switzerland in the eighties I was shocked at the clumsy and inefficient methods of teaching the English language which were used at that time. This had inspired me to create Blitzenglish, a brutally simplified and simple basic english, with a basic vocabulary of about 800 words and very simple and regular grammar. (http://www.blitzenglish.com). I have successfully tested the method on thousands of European students - most of whom could in a few weeks master basic English communication.
The success of BlitzEnglish has motivated me to seek a way to create a simplified inter-slavic language, which would be as easy to learn as BlitzEnglish, yet enable basic communication with some 400 million slavic speakers around the world. Since the structure of Slavic languages is vastly different both from English as well as from Esperanto, I needed to invent a unique new solution to the problem. The first time I have succeeded to create a workable and simple inter-slavic language was in 1999, and I called it SLOVIO after the Slavic word Slovo (= word). I have worked on it ever since and you can view the latest version on website: http://www.slovio.com.
My other interests have been in the field of physics and cosmology, which made me publish what I believe to be very unique and logical cosmological theories: http://www.slovio.com/multi-level-universe/
My earlier interests include research into scientific extension of human life: http://www.immortology.com
My primary reason for becoming a registered Wikipedia user was the fact that there are some wikipedia.org users who have chosen to pervert the facts and history and who are misusing wikipedia.org for their own purposes. For example one of those users has made it his life-mission to remove all references to the universal interslavic language Slovio from the English pages of Wikipedia, while trying to promote his plagiarized language, which was created with a few cosmetic changes from Slovio. The facts have to be set straight: Slovio is the first workable inter-slavic language with a complete grammar and sizable vocabulary which has existed in the thousand years since the demise of Old Church Slavonic.