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Re:German expressions that don’t exist in English by ulfw on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:23AM (#21913484)
Do you have any justification for calling bullshit on him?
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Re:German expressions that don’t exist in English by umanwizard on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:25AM (#21913884)
I’m not the OP, but the fact that out of the thousands of professional academic linguists, none has ever seriously proposed and defined an “expressiveness scale” suggests that we would need extraordinary evidence to accept an HN comment claiming to have done so.
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Re:German expressions that don’t exist in English by Avamander on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:03PM (#21915790)
The fact that information density across languages was measured and there was no significant difference[0]. How can a language be more expressive yet contain just as much information.

[0]: https://www.science20.com/content/information_density_all_la...

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Re:German expressions that don’t exist in English by goto11 on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:30AM (#21913928)
I have never heard of any objective measure of "expressiveness" of human languages.
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