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What I would like to see is a language that is much more succinct, less bound in grammar rules/syntax but also less irregularities and ambiguities. English coul
by fighting 10y ago
What I would like to see is a language that is much more succinct, less bound in grammar rules/syntax but also less irregularities and ambiguities. English could evolve into this. Latin could have too but currently it is dead. Change happens.
- cm2187 10y agoBut again, what language? We are not talking about computer languages. This is not a theoretical exercise in an ideal software world where you can start all over again. It's going to be one of the mainstream languages. Which one? Russian? Chinese?
- fighting 10y agoYes, currently Chinese is the main alternative with the most population and has some of the features I mentioned. It is also great for business with many people learning it to attract some of the chinese money floating around and lots of foreigners there to make their fortunes. But just a couple of decades ago it was russian. A major war between the US and China and it might be Hindi next. Never safe to predict the future.
- douche 10y agoChinese has a really awful written form, as far as being something that people can learn to read and write in a short amount of time.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoAnd before that Japanese.
- cm2187 10y agoI can safely predict that Chinese will not be used as the common language for Europe...