Oh, gosh, the usual tokenadult nonsense. I will just counter 5) with http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/466 http://www.aaai.org/ojs/inde

Oh, gosh, the usual tokenadult nonsense. I will just counter 5) with http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/466 http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/46.... But if you like a one-to-one correspondence between spoken language sentence structure and the usual first-order logic notation, Chinese is a good place to start. Umm. Wat? Care to elaborate more? Any papers? Also, first-order logic has many grammars and different families of syntax. Postfix, prefix, infix, graphical, linear, controlled English-based Attempto Controlled English. It makes absolutely no sense to say Chinese syntax is more logical than Sanskrit. A language is logical if it has a controlled syntax (at the least, well-defined semantics is the holy grail for AI). Attempto ACE (http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/ http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/) and http://www.jfsowa.com/clce/specs.htm http://www.jfsowa.com/clce/specs.htm are logic languages. Chinese has no controlled syntax. Sanskrit is the only natural language to have a controlled syntax. Chomsky even credits his famous notation to a Sanskrit grammarian, Panini. Does any of your other languages have this advantage? Since you accuse other HN-ers of being Hindutva posters, can I do the same and accuse you of being a paid Chinese shill? Stop with the unsubstantiated intellectually low-grade vacuous negativity. Once again, please keep your biases at home and keep HN a civil place. I can't believe your glib uncivil FUD-ish comment is top ranked. Ugh. One wonders what kind of mind would feverishly advocate for any language to go extinct.