Have linguists ever figured out what the 'perfect' language was?

[hawkeye81x]

I heard somewhere that Klingon was actually a pretty good language with solid syntactic structures.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
I heard somewhere that Klingon was actually a pretty good language with solid syntactic structures.

Q'apla!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: ajpa123
Good question.. Not sure but i have a question.. is sign language more-or-less universal? or does it differ by language also. I'm sure it differs, but maybe i'm wrong.

No.. there are quite vast differences in sign languages between countries, actually.

<--- girlfriends mom interprets for the Deaf and Deaf/Blind

 

[Eug]

Perfect language? Didn't help this movie William Shatner though...

Incubus, which is completely in Esperanto, is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen.

 

[dpopiz]

sure a lot of other languages have a lot of things about them that are SOOOOO much more logical and structured than english, but I think the same is true vice-versa. I think the more important thing is to just decide on one language to use no matter how good it is so that people can communicate info internationally with ease. English is becoming that language because it's now being taught to most young children all over the world in addition to their local language.

I'm not saying we should do away with other languages though. of course not! besides the fact that a lot of deep ideas can only be expressed in a particular lanuage, the plethora of languages gives the world culture and art and beauty. so again, I think the best thing is to just keep all the local, native languages of the world but also teach everybody one language (english) to communicate info in

 

[VTBigBear]

C++ ?

 

[GasX]

English has the largest vocabulary and therefore is the best language. Assuming your not some suburban white teenage ghetto ganster wannabe with a working vocab of 5 non-profane words, the precision with which you can decribe things is above and beyond any other language.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
English has the largest vocabulary and therefore is the best language. Assuming your not some suburban white teenage ghetto ganster wannabe with a working vocab of 5 non-profane words, the precision with which you can decribe things is above and beyond any other language.

I thought asian languages by their nature had more specific words?

 

[stormbv]

eh, english is good enough for me.

 

[fredtam]

Spanish seems to be the easiest and at the rate things are going everyone here (US) will need to speak it soon anyway.

 

[stormbv]

Originally posted by: fredtam
Spanish seems to be the easiest and at the rate things are going everyone here (US) will need to speak it soon anyway.

I know, since I, like, have a u.s. flag as my avatar and everything, I'm worried about the state that this country is in. Actually, I want to brush up on my spanish so I can learn some new beloved patriot jokes.

 

Nothing in constant flux can be perfect.

 

[johnjbruin]

Sanskrit?

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: stormbv

Originally posted by: fredtam
Spanish seems to be the easiest and at the rate things are going everyone here (US) will need to speak it soon anyway.

I know, since I, like, have a u.s. flag as my avatar and everything, I'm worried about the state that this country is in. Actually, I want to brush up on my spanish so I can learn some new beloved patriot jokes.

I'm not worried at all since I speak it and my wife (a property manager) is required to for her job. It is a growing trend.

 

[Compton]

telepathy

that was too easy