/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7369467
Japanese they came up with animu girls.

>>7369467
The one which is most helpful to you, personally.

>>7369472

All Asian languages are horrible and have separate symbols for everything,

>>7369467
nice science thread right here

>>7369483
That's only a part of the Jap language though, they've got the alphabet thing going on as well like in English.

>>7369483
Have you ever read any asian poetry? If you havn't you have no idea what you're talking about

Ist doch ganz klar:
Deutsch
In which other language can you sing such a beutiful song about rape?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUTUy7rvmw

C++

Probably ithkuil.

>>7369520
>constructed languages

Polish- most poetic and most beautiful
KURWA

Proto-Indo-European obviously

>>7369467
English is the language with the highest verbosity, so in theory you can express the most thoughts with the fewest words via English. That's not necessarily true in practice, of course, where some of our basic words are highly ambiguous. Imagine how much easier it'd be to talk about feelings if we had 4 types of love like the Greeks.

Math
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>>7369530
>English is the language with the highest verbosity, so in theory you can express the most thoughts with the fewest words via English.
topkek

not even remotely true
English lacks the more advanced grammar of agglutinative languages or even just a simple case system of Greek, Latin, German, Icelandic, most Slavic languages and countless others which give each words more nuanced meaning than in English which must rely on word order, sentence structure and more verbosity to get the same information across

also even if English has more words than most other languages (which is a contested claim) the idea that English speakers have a larger vocabulary than other language speakers is ridiculous and baseless

>>7369551

English is easiest to learn, it is the most logical.

In german the sentences are literally backwards, where the first half comes last.

>>7369551
Thanks for repeating the second part of my post? You read what I said, right?

>>7369618
The rest of your post was right but only by chance. Vocabulary is only a small part of the equation and the only one you even acknowledged.

>>7369621
>Vocabulary is only a small part of the equation and the only one you even acknowledged.
Because that's the only thing my post was about...

>>7369623
Yes. You made a large statement about language and had nothing but arguments about vocabulary which are so stupid they're practically invalid.

I'd say there's about 90% chance you're monolingual.

>>7369615
>English is easiest to learn
No
>it is the most logical
No

>In german the sentences are literally backwards, where the first half comes last

They're only backwards to English speakers then. Germans would say our english was backwards. Be objective you dummy.

>>7369626
>taking the bait

>>7369625
>You made a large statement about language
No. I made a normative statement about a language's potential and then I made a positive statement about how it exists in reality. I made these statements in response to an OP who said he believes English to be the "best".

I'm not sure why I'm having to explain my own post on 4chan right now.

>>7369467
Most languages transfer the same amount of information at the same rate. Anyone who claims one is better than the other is just trying to jerk off their own pet language.

>>7369629
If you think that some people are not seriously that dumb, then you need to start talking to people more.

>>7369630
>I'm not sure why I'm having to explain my own post on 4chan right now.'
because they are stupid and you're being called out on it

your post was filled with shit arguments that betray your complete lack of understanding in linguistics

>>7369631
>Most languages transfer the same amount of information at the same rate.
>Most
So now let us see which one is superior. I'm betting some languages like hebrew which have a mathematical backing are slightly better than other languages because of its simplicity without loss of generality.

>>7369635
If you chose to saw my post as painting with broad strokes, I certainly can't change that. Good luck with the rest of the thread!

>>7369631
>Most languages transfer the same amount of information at the same rate
source?
I doubt e.g. that a Swiss German speaker can transmit information as fast as a French speaker.

English is probably the most nuanced. But autists are incapable of nuance, so for most of you, probably some fascist constructed language is best.

>>7369648
>English is probably the most nuanced.
wow you're stupid see >>7369551

>>7369639
>superior
>hebrew
>mathematical backing
>better than other languages
>simplicity without loss of generality.
Yeah sure, Hebrew is very logical and efficient language.

>>7369650

Yeah I already read that, but it's wrong so I ignored it.

>>7369654
>it's wrong so I ignored it.
explain

>>7369632
if you get mad at a post on 4chan, it was bait

>>7369666
But I'm not mad. See pic.

>>7369626

What language is structured as clearly as English?

In general there are clearly superior languages when it comes to ease of use and ability to present ideas clearly.

Every language has approximately the same expressive potential because they all talk about a similar range of human experience, but English arguably has more terminology already built in that is useful to modern life since it has become the dominant language of science and technology.

>>7369674
bait harder nigger

>>7369467
Define what makes a language "best". Some languages sound nice, some are ugly, some are easy or hard to learn (depending on your native language), some are useful and some are not.

>>7369676
yeah other languages just don't have enough words so people just don't talk about science and technology if they don't speak english

>>7369682
Obviously not, but they borrow a ton from English to do the job if they didn't already have the words, because English is the dominant international language. But I guess I'm making a false dichotomy by implying that loanwords aren't "part of the language" which borrows them.

>>7369502
I submit that if Machine code is a language then DNA is also a language.DNA is the greatest language as it can physically interact with and shape matter which ultimately becomes self aware. Are there any other languages that are self aware?

>>7369676
That's not true. Languages differ in complexity. For example, in Australian aboriginal languages there are no words for numbers higher than three.

>>7369705
>Every human* language
happy?

>>7369705
Well, that's why I said "approximately". I know there are certain gaps, but they tend to be superficial, and if you live in the dirt eating kangaroos, lacking complex numbers is pretty superficial, same goes for south american hut-dwellers like the Piraha who also lack a detailed number system. Though I think they just use Portuguese when they need to trade with outsiders anyway.

dutch
it's just so kawaii

Here some typical examples of different languages for comparison:

Hungarian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UmvUy1LziE
Spanish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWsoEAbT7KQ
Russian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLvtP6KMUM
French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEkd1qWonj8
German:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYjz9T4U64
English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq-Ru6kQhE4

>>7369467

>broken and nonsensical orthography
>no organization of phonology
>nonsensical phonetic rules that are constantly broken
>arbitrary grammatical rules
>no distinct subjunctive mood
>no distinction between imperfect and preterite

Modern English is just plain shit.

>>7369467

Sanskrit is the most precise language (and it sounds cool too), but it is a bitch to learn.

>>7369652
Numerology confirmed.

>>7369832
>Ludacris for the English example

kill yourself immediately

i mean like, right now. shove a gun past your lips and pull the trigger.

>>7369896
Well, you're right. It's a bad example for Englisch in general. Lets say it's an example for American English.

>>7369879
>A language's quality is determined by its rules

Your autism is showing.