> Cultures that have lost the evolutionary race, who failed to instill competitive world comprehension in the carrier population, are not really useful. I was

> Cultures that have lost the evolutionary race, who failed to instill competitive world comprehension in the carrier population, are not really useful. I was thinking the other day about that language that has no relative left/right and instead everything is based on (effectively) compass direction. The speakers reportedly have excellent direction sense compared to the average non-speaker. Their language is much more efficient at certain tasks we struggle with (English has crutches like "stage left", "starboard", and "your left" to compensate, but unless expected and practiced those are always effort/error prone. I myself fail at simple right/left way too often.) Obviously this is a linguistic (and arguably cultural) trait with some value, without denying the value of also having relative kedtýright. This language is unique (? or at least very rare), which tells me it failed to spread. Logical, as it would be hard for non-native speakers to pick up. But that means "losing the evolutionary race" has no particular relation to the VALUE to us.