>I still don't think it makes a good case for comparing entire languages as a whole. I wasn't making such a case. I was pointing out that in limited contexts,

>I still don't think it makes a good case for comparing entire languages as a whole. I wasn't making such a case. I was pointing out that in limited contexts, different languages may have more or less effective means for accurately describing things within that context. Attempting to place a valuation on languages and comparing them wholesale is stupid, but that doesn't imply that a language can't be lacking in vocabulary in some space compared to another. That also doesn't mean that there is something fundamentally keeping it from developing vocabulary for such spaces. Which I'm sure they do in niche spaces, such as the academy.