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> English excels at being precise and scientific. That's false. Today English is the biggest language in terms of dictionary weight. English is the universal l
by atmosx 11y ago
> English excels at being precise and scientific.
That's false. Today English is the biggest language in terms of dictionary weight. English is the universal language, borrows terminology from other languages and modern sciences, which grow exponentially, use primarily English. Especially computer science.
That said, English tends to be less precise and hence less complex compared to other languages. For example 'love' vs 'in love' are used interchangeably and their meaning is not as precise as in other languages. Greek has totally different words to convey the meaning 'ΑΓΑΠΗ' (love) vs 'ΕΡΩΤΑΣ' (in love). Italian like English uses 'innamorato' vs 'amore', which again blurs the difference between the two.
Greek and Russian I believe are way more precise as languages than English will ever be. That's not to that a language is superior or inferior than the other. It's a matter of language design, I guess. I don't know about Japanese, Chinese, African and Arabic languages/dialects.
Bulgarian for example is a rather modern language, derives from Cyrillic and is grammatically very simple. Much simpler than Russian. But it's a complete language by all means.
- abandonliberty 11y agoCrap, I'm not a linguist. I was just trying to find some redeeming feature of the language ;) Now, since I assume we both support metric, we have to partner to change the default language of the world.