Post by robert robertsPost by BhairituIt's thought to be an "engineered" language.
This is thought by whom?
Most scholars I've spoken with and read on the subject.
Post by robert robertsPost by BhairituIOW, at some point things were such a mess linguistically that some king
probably had some group create it.
The Korean language was engineered and is called the "morning language"
because the characters can be learned in one morning session.
Please explain what you mean by "engineered"? I am not a linguistics scholar
and am unfamiliar with this term.
Languages tended to emerge out of older languages that fall into disuse
or when foreigners invaded and tried to force their language on the
people. Hindi has a lot of Sanskrit base in it (Devanagari is a script
not the language) but it also has a lot of Arabic (i.e. a character for
"z" was added) and sometimes Hindi speakers just drop into English which
is pretty much the second language of India.
The logic of the language (which MMY was referring to) suggests it is an
engineered language. Do you think it was cognized or something like that?
Post by robert robertsPost by BhairituEnglish is a mongrel language with many influences in it. That's what
happens when a language evolves. Baring a world war we will at some point
need a common language for the world since we communicating more daily on
a global basis. It would be best to start from scratch and engineer one
that people can learn easily.
Why start from scratch if English is already morphing into a common global
language?
thanx
Because English is hard to learn. Too many words are spelled as if we
were speaking Old English. "Through" is pronounced like "threw." Such
dated spellings need to go. But it is a language which emerged out of
several. I'm no linguistic expert but I have read and heard interviews
on the subject. And I've studied French, Sanskrit, Hindi and Spanish.
When you start studying languages you begin to see concepts that make a
language like Spanish easier to learn than English. Or why for example
with so many Teutonic roots in English, German was the language of
choice to study when I went to high school because that made it easier
for English speakers to learn. I wound up in French class instead and
back then taught by teachers who were more into French culture than how
to teach someone the language. :D