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Re:What Will the World Speak in 2115? by cperciva on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:28PM (#8829156)
I really don't like how tones are presented as a confounding item like irregular verbs. Tonal languages essentially just take advantage of extra bandwidth that was ignored by most european languages.

Most irregular verbs also serve to increase bandwidth though: You can say "I ate" faster than "I eated".

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Re:What Will the World Speak in 2115? by qianyilong on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:34PM (#8829178)
Dang that is true I didn't think of that. good observation.
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