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Insofar as efficiency equates with precision (kind of, I would have thought), here's some data that doesn't take your view. English comes out top out of seven p
by vixen99 5y ago
Insofar as efficiency equates with precision (kind of, I would have thought), here's some data that doesn't take your view. English comes out top out of seven popular languages but only just.
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/06/whats_the_most_efficient_language.html https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/06/whats_the_most...
I wonder which you think is a more precise language than English? As a monoglot, I can't comment.
- medstrom 5y agoI know Swedish, so my comment is that English frequently feels imprecise. If you want to make sure a sentence will be interpreted unambiguously, you have to pile on a lot of extra verbiage, which people don't normally do because precision is not that important in most cases. By contrast, Swedish normally leaves less room for multiple interpretations, which makes brevity easier to achieve.