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French is a nightmare. It is my mother tongue and I keep mixing everything. Languages are tools to everyday communication. Why do we keep using historical clun
by aloisdg 7y ago
French is a nightmare. It is my mother tongue and I keep mixing everything.
Languages are tools to everyday communication. Why do we keep using historical clunky tools when we are able to create far better ones?
By the way, Esperanto is a popular neutral pragmatic choice. I would be fine with a any well-made community driven tool. For example, I am fond of Ido's digraphs. I think it is easier than Esperanto or French's diacritics.
- coldtea 7y ago>Languages are tools to everyday communication. Why do we keep using historical clunky tools when we are able to create far better ones? Because we're not mere computers or animals, to only care about the most efficient communication of commands, facts, and numbers, but we also have a history (reflected in our words and language), a culture (ditto), a literature, poetry, idiom, and song -- all the way to ancestors who spoke the same language, and successor who will carry it forward.