Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?
by kubanczyk on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:50AM
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> Languages are optimized firstly for the people that speak it as their first language.
Truly optimized? I'd rather say: having arrived at a random local minimum.
The anecdata I can offer. The people who speak this (non-fictional) language as their first one, struggle very much in the beginning. It's far from being given for free: children are not immune from opportunity costs.
Truly optimized? I'd rather say: having arrived at a random local minimum.
The anecdata I can offer. The people who speak this (non-fictional) language as their first one, struggle very much in the beginning. It's far from being given for free: children are not immune from opportunity costs.