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most efficient language

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-12 7:52

always wondered, what language do you multi lingual people think is the most efficient in speech or written?

excluding english

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-17 18:32

>>40
I really don't care about the subject, I just wanted to prove him wrong. I didn't like his tone.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-21 5:23

Chinese! Each symbol moreover represents an idea rather than an actual literal meaning.

So does that mean there is no spoon?

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-21 8:43

English is a creole language with germanic form and romantic vocab.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-24 4:55

English isn't efficient... It's just that it's the Ligua France, nothing else... Icelandic, that's efficient!

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-24 17:03 (sage)

>>44
I'm sure you mean Lingua franca

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-25 4:31

>>43
That only makes English a redheaded bastard stepchild. Of both parents.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-25 8:07

>>46
In fact, this is true according to many linguistics.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-25 14:14

>>43

English is a germanic language with latin form.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-27 3:25

wapanese is the most efficient language

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-27 6:46

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Name: Anonymous 2006-06-30 14:40

>>24

Body language is universal, so sign language, probably is good to learn.

Name: Anonymous 2006-07-03 19:55

Pidgin

Name: Mike from Shreveport 2007-05-16 9:13 ID:v8Z1Ksyv

The most efficient computer language, BAR NONE, is Forth.
That much is definitive.  As far as human languages, that is very difficult to say.  It would depend greatly on the metric used, the context of person speaking it, his culture, etc.

That which is more efficient for written language might not be so in spoken language, and vice versa.  And are we talking most efficient to learn, or most efficient to use once learnt?  Or some kind of sum or average of the two?  And use in written or spoken form?)  Efficient in its forms and rules?  Its spelling and pronunciation?  Its terseness?

At any rate, I don't know that a (human communication) language's "efficiency" is actually that important.  Sure it needs a reasonable degree of efficiency--but isn't expressivity more important?  Being able to express the concepts and ideas you want/need to express, the emotions and feelings you want/need to express, and get across to another human being just what's going on in your head.  At least so it seems to me.

Mike from Shreveport

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-16 14:23 ID:pkLGlVPo

BASIC

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-16 14:34 ID:Y3Igow0T

Even though English isn't my first language I like it better since it has more words.

Name: chorizo 2007-05-16 14:41 ID:i23cMYG2

Pues yo creo que el mejor es el español...por cierto os falta una letra en vuestro teclado no?

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-16 16:07 ID:2nHjWQkI

>>56
hasta que estamos de acuerdo en algo puto gachupa de mierda

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-16 17:11 ID:i23cMYG2

don't know to write without offending people?

Name: Dr. Dre 2007-11-10 23:24

Actually, I care! who ever wins I will believe and never change my mind, ever, due to the fact that whoever gets the last word in or gets the most worked up or YELLS the most is clearly superior in their thinking and experience to be unequivocally correct.  

Name: ROJOSEPARATISTAETARRA 2007-11-11 0:26

El español le da mil vueltas al inglés.

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 0:31

>>60
Sí, lástima que haya miles de español desperdigados por todo el mundo y que los hispanohablantes nos llevemos tan mal. Íbamos a conquistar el mundo de otro modo.

Anglosajones de las narices...

Name: El Rey 2007-11-11 7:27

>>60
>>61
¿Por qué no te callas?

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 10:20

Probably Interlingua, a conlang. An estimated number of 600 million people can understand if you speak it.

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 10:59

Esperanto

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 12:51

I think Swedish would be a great option because of the super simple grammar.

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 14:29

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Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 18:24

This is a moronic question. No language is more logical or useful than any other, and therefore surely not any more or less efficient than any other. Each takes on the vocabulary it needs. One language may not have terminology for something, but it would not be difficult to develop it if the need arose. As for grammar, what seems logical to us will have everything to do with what we grew up with and what we know. Therefore, that's not much of a measure for how efficient or logical something is or isn't. Seriously, basic linguistics should be taught in schools. People believe so much shit about language.

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 18:34

I loled at the guy that said that english is basically a french dialect..... the grammar (which is basically the structure of a language) has nothing to do with french.. some words came from french, yea, but it still very unrelated.

Im from brazil, we speak portuguese here (brazilian portuguese actually), and a considerable ammount of words in this language came from ARABIC!! same with spanish.. but both language are latin languages and they have nothing to do with arabic

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-11 19:07

>>68

More than just some words. Wikipedia says it ranges from 28% to 41%.

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-15 20:43

English is actually a very efficient language, because it doesn't have any complicated declension, conjugation, grammatical cases, dual number and all those baroque featues. That makes it also suitable for machine processing.

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-15 23:09

German took the most deprecated portions of Latin and the Germanic languages. Any language that still has engendered nouns is immediately out of the running. And anything with more than two cases/declinations. While I have only studied Modern English, Old English, German, Frisian, and Spanish, I wouldn't be one to choose the most efficient. Out of those choices, however, it would have to be Modern English. Two cases, no engendered nouns, then again we have over 9000 tenses.

Perhaps Dutch or Afrikaans?

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-16 3:15

Russian is pretty efficient, despite a diabolically complicated grammar. Few words are wasted.

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