Narz
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But of course. My 10,000 posts here are just a cover so the government & other evildoers don't suspect me.Are you fluent?![]()

But of course. My 10,000 posts here are just a cover so the government & other evildoers don't suspect me.Are you fluent?![]()
Surely English is more efficient in these examples, since the words are smaller, and you can more accurately convey meaning because the meanings are split between 3 words rather than two?As for spoken, English is truly horrid in terms of efficiency (contrast English verbs with Japanese verbs: Eat, Ate, Eaten = Tabemasu, Tabemashita; Do, Did, Done = Shimasu, Shimashita; Go, Went, Gone/Been = Ikimasu, Ikimashita).
Thing is, IMO a certain degree of redundancy and inefficiency in a language is actually good. Because it means you can still understand a person even if you mishear or don't quite catch some parts.
Surely English is more efficient in these examples, since the words are smaller, and you can more accurately convey meaning because the meanings are split between 3 words rather than two?
C++ is easily the dumbest language ever invented.Probably C++
But is an alphabet really so unwieldy? I think that an alphabet is better because, again, it allows one to convey the intended sounds precisely. If you're upset about learning verb tenses, imagine how upsetting it must be to learn a great host of characters in order to write properly.The words are only smaller because I wrote them in the horribly unwieldy English alphabet. Japanese is almost always more concise.
Ok, whatever the word is for a language that uses a single symbol for an entire word. For some reason the word is slipping my mind.Well it's a good thing that Japanese and Korean aren't made with pictograms, huh?
I believe its called a syllabary.
Korean Hangul's actually quite efficient. Each square "block" character represents a syllable. Each "component" character in the block is a letter. The shape of the component represents the position of the lips and tongue needed to produce that sound, while similar components equal similar sounds. Pretty cool.
German grammar is a nightmare, with those declination things. I'm gonna get some more lessons to improve, but most likely, I'll never going to be able to speak it like a native.
Ok, whatever the word is for a language that uses a single symbol for an entire word. For some reason the word is slipping my mind.
I was afraid you were going to write that.You're thinking of logograms like Chinese script, but Japanese isn't logograms. Katakana and Haragana are syllabaries have a pretty managable amount of characters and learning them would be far less work than learning what "ough" might mean and why the letter "e" can make like 8 different vowel sounds.
But Japanese writing is complicated for other reason. There's no doubt that it's more concise than English though.
Gooblah's example of Korean is a much better example of a language with an essentially perfect writing system. Languages that invent their own rather than rip off an alphabet from a mostly unrelated language tend to have a much better othrography-sound relationship.
You often do not need the pronoun: "Parlo" is "I speak", whereas "parli" is "you speak" etc..
I was afraid you were going to write that.
At no point did I say that English is a superior language. I did indeed say that alphabets are superior to logograms. English is the dumbest language in the world.
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If efficiency meanings speaking to the most people with the least effort then English.