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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by afiori on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:08PM (#24803974)
people not following the standard does not remove value from a standard.

For centuries people wrote in Latin in Europe not because it was anyone natural language, but because of the reach it would grant[1].

[1] and because in many cases local languages were less sophisticated and inadequate to philosophy/poetry.

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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by zorked on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:29PM (#24804160)
Your point [1] on the capabilities of some languages is generally discredited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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Re:Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not... by afiori on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:23PM (#24804674)
If I understand the topic then linguistic relativity has nothing to do with this, consider the fictional language of cave-speak as a stripped down version of English, It is reasonable to imagine that it would be harder to discuss theology or write the principia mathematica in such a language.
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