The edge of language science

The edge of language science.

Two questions.

Is there a scientific ranking of language efficiency?

I suppose that a Chinese whisper will have different outcomes for the loss of information for different languages. And this could be measurement for language efficiency.

Why are there more problems and corruption in former French colonies than there is in former English colonies?

My assumption is that this is because the way French shapes the thoughts of its speakers. And somehow French causes more misunderstanding. A example is Hispaniola. The French part (Haiti) is always in problems, while the Dominican Republic is less so.

My theory is that the Celtic languages disappeared because they were less efficient. And they are less efficient because of the culture of playing with the semantics. By playing with semantics groups could identify themselves among themselves. Like a secret sauce over the language for the group. More poetic and playful, but less clear. French has maintained this playfulness aspect of its celtic roots more than English.

Comments

The final disconnection of the USA from the world

Look at this map of the world. And start to understand how the USA is getting more and more disconnected from the world. This map shows the spread of the metric units of measure system in the world in blue. The orange part is where they have their own units of measure. The influence of American English in the world has been big because it in a way continued the British empire. But they (Americans) forget that after Chinese, actual Spanish is the most spoken native language in the world. Language Native speakers (in millions) Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese 990 Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Spanish 484 Indo-European Romance English 390 Indo-European Germanic Hindi 345 Indo-European Indo-Aryan Portuguese 250 Indo-European Romance The USA integrated into the world as a big brother guarding for pease and freedom. But its elites (university graduates) lost the connection with the population and the primary task on an elite, taking care of good public services. As everywhere and always a...

Why "tax" is becoming an old-fashioned word

The globalization of the past decades will have language consequences in the future. One of them will be the disappearance of the word tax. Its replacement (the modern equivalent) will be public service cost. I explain why: About the randomness of tax Where and what to pay tax for? People in a city environment (modern global society) need good public services and people are willing to pay for it. We (the free world people) require roads; public transport; an education network; a value exchange system (money); electronic communications (internet); air transport hubs (airports) and so on. All necessary for modern life. And all only possible if we work somehow together to maintain them. Three main categories of public services. If you analyze what main types of public services there are, they can be classified into three groups: security-services; network-services and care-services. Security services Security services are needed to prevent threats to have impact. And fight the impact of a...

Changing economy

The new economy will be based on indirect and direct nuclear energy for two reasons: Environment and availability. Environment because of the CO2 emissions and plastic waste. Availability because we already burned most of the easy accessible petroleum and extracting new resources it is getting more difficult and less economical. Direct nuclear energy is harvested from nuclear fission or fusion . Indirect nuclear energy is solar, wind or geothermal energy . Nuclear energy (direct and indirect) is available in abundance, once we have the technology to harvest it. I believe by 2030 humanity will be converting old coal burning electricity plants into geothermal (by means of plasma deep drilling )or thorium molten salt nuclear plants. And be off grid for light and data by means of solar and batteries. This scenario will change the global economy in a real global economy. The geopolitical component related to petroleum will disappear. Power literary will be more equal distributed over the ...

Search This Blog