Don't know. Too many idioms in the English. No ambiguities in German or the Slavic languages - even the writing is (with some exceptions) phonetic. So, not sure about the argument in favor is the English being economical.
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If you can't type economically in QWERTY, then the language is sub-optimal, ergo English's ultimate superiority.
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како мислиш дека не можам? нормално дека можам.
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I mean look at those cryptic glyphs, they look like Lascaux drawings.
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It's Cyrillic. The point is, the keyboard works just fine with this alphabet too.
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Sure that's not that awful but imagine if you had to insert accents on top of the letters.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @kkolozova and
English is economical because, like it’s people, it is lazy - and as such, it is complex, because, like it’s people, it requires the recipient to do the work for them
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Replying to @14JUN1995 @kkolozova and
English is complex at a basic syntactical structure which allows it to find a mechanical beauty down the road. It's the only language worthy of being exported to the whoever comes after us. All other languages, go for semantic richness but that's not the best solution.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @14JUN1995 and
Syntactic complexity is not about variation but simplicity and elegance in the information theoretical sense. That allows you to build extremely durable structures out of them.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @14JUN1995 and
from an informatic theory sense differences between any human languages are trivial
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Not entirely, there are computational models that show some languages are more info efficient. Check the works of Samson Abrahasky and his students at Oxford.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @14JUN1995 and
that sounds interesting can you give me a more precise source?
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Replying to @nath1as @14JUN1995 and
Check Abrahamsky's webpage and his senior students theses. He is one of the greatest computer scientists of our time.
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