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For computer parsing the language, this might matter. For humans learning the language, it accounts maybe one percent of the total effort to acquire it. We hum
by GolDDranks 10y ago
For computer parsing the language, this might matter. For humans learning the language, it accounts maybe one percent of the total effort to acquire it.
We humans all have the same hardware processing language. If some spoken languages were _actually_ more complex or too complex for that hardware to process, they wouldn't be spoken.
- hrktb 10y agoI think the point is not if something is out of reach of a basic human, but more that if it takes 10 years to reach basic proficiency, then it's not a language that will be fit to share with a huge amount of people from different backgrounds. Now, I personaly think that if French actually reached a point where it would be shared as common language by billions of people it would have been broken down to a more efficient form. Creoles and other dialects derived from french all seem to get rid of the redundant bits.