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I am afraid there's a deal breaker to this interesting idea. Some languages are in some areas a lot more expressive than English. (Beware of the Blub paradoxon

I am afraid there's a deal breaker to this interesting idea. Some languages are in some areas a lot more expressive than English. (Beware of the Blub paradoxon where in programming languages someone doesn't understand concepts not present in the programming language he uses: for natural languages this means that speaker of one language might have some difficulty to grasp the expressiveness of another language.) This means if there is a language which could describe something more easily than English then you shouldn't deny the possibility of a non-English page.

Myrmornis 7y ago
Sure. Fairly rare though? I think English will be as adequate as any natural language to describe most core phenomena of our physical universe and human culture.
- _nalply 7y ago
  Signed Languages of the Deaf are more expressive describing form, motion and dynamics in the 3D-space and also subtle differences in emotion than English and German. Bernese German also seems to be more expressive expressing emotions related to the body, working and being at ease compared to High German. These are the examples I have encountered myself so I don't believe this to be really rare. There's a thing where English really excels. It has a gigantic lexicon with many words differing in subtle aspects, so you can be very precise. This also makes it easy to create puns.