On Aug 30, 7:11 am, Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: (snip) > I suspect that the alphabet is not ideal for representing the sounds of _any_ > language, and I would look for my proof in the plethora of things that we use > when writing, other than the bare A-Z. - Punctuation, diacritics...
It can be made better and if that means add/removing letters or redefining what a letter represents i am fine with that. I know first hand the hypocrisy of the English language. I am thinking more on the lines of English redux! > Not that I agree that it would be a Utopia, whatever the language - more like > a nightmare of Orwellian proportions - because the language you get taught > first, moulds the way you think. And I know from personal experience that > there are concepts that can be succinctly expressed in one language, that > takes a lot of wordy handwaving to get across in another. So diversity would > be less, creativity would suffer due to lack of cross pollination, and > progress would slow or stop. We already live in a Orwellian language nightmare. Have you seen much change to the English language in your lifetime? i haven't. A language must constantly evolve and trim the excess cruft that pollutes it. And English has a mountain of cruft! After all our years on this planet i think it's high time to perfect a simplified language for world-wide usage. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
