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Re:How to Revive a Dead Language by xyzelement on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:32AM (#26124531)
Additional to the comments you got - different languages are able to express different things. There's the classic example of Innuits having hundreds of synonyms for snow: I bet you can have a much more nuanced conversation about snow in that language than any other.

Have you ever heard the phrase "lost in translation" and thought about what it actually means?

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Re:How to Revive a Dead Language by ab111111111 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @12:57PM (#26125224)
It's more a matter of "different languages force you to express different things". E.g. English forces you to specify subject and tense, while Chinese makes specifying such things optional.
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Re:How to Revive a Dead Language by xyzelement on Saturday February 13, 2021 @01:37PM (#26125561)
It's not just that. Some languages are richer than others in various dimensions. For example: English has a single "diminutive"-type suffix but Russian has a vast range to express various related suffixes that allow you to color nouns in a way I can't really convey in English.

This makes Russian more naturally suitable to (for example) poetry, but english for Technical writing

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