> Languages are optimized firstly for the people that speak it as their first language. Truly optimized? I'd rather say: having arrived at a random local minim

> Languages are optimized firstly for the people that speak it as their first language. Truly optimized? I'd rather say: having arrived at a random local minimum. The anecdata I can offer. The people who speak this (non-fictional) language as their first one, struggle very much in the beginning. It's far from being given for free: children are not immune from opportunity costs.