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Is English the best language out there?

  1. dizmo
  2. Alexander_Howard

    Alexander_Howard

    This tells about the features of the languages, but nothing about the usefulness of them. :-\

  3. Alexander_Howard

    Alexander_Howard

    I have watched hundreds of various videos about languages like learning tips, language overviews etc., but not a single one with the analysis of languages. Not a single one in my life!!! It is because it requires serious analytical skills, brilliance, genius, expert linguistic knowledge, so it's probably less than 1% of people on Earth who could pull of a video like that. And these people, if they exist at all, probably have better things to do than making youtube videos. And I am interested exactly in this, not in cars or how to learn languages. I feel like if I want it I'll have to do it myself, but it's probably not going to be interesting for many people. It's for the circle of the chosen.

  4. Alexander_Howard

    Alexander_Howard

    @VegetableStuIt seems like a book about internet slang, not about the analysis of the various language features and the evaluation of them. I want the analysis like "Flexible vs fixed word order", for example. Or "Do you need dual number?", "Why do we need grammatical genders, what are the advantages and disadvantages of genderless languages?", "How many words does a language really need, how many is enough, how many is not, how many is excessive and what types of words?", "Do you need tenses in a language?", "How many cases are enough?", "What features are absolutely essential, what are useful to have and what are useless ones?", a deeper understanding the connection between language and culture, about the expression and inability to express, etc. Not a book teaching about the internet slang. I want a reasonable, practical book about languages, but I have never read such one in my entire life. It seems like nobody even in the West, let alone third world, is interested in this, except me and I feel like I'm a chosen one, I feel unique. I suppose J.R. Tolkien was interested in this too and he was German, but geniuses like him are truly unique. If Tolkien is not unique for you, then I don't know who would you consider unique. J. R. R. Tolkien was aware of the Tolkien family's German origin. Tolkien knew around 35 different languages.

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