Re: The difficulties of judging a language which you don't speak natively (wa...
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 29, 2004, 15:31 |
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In a message dated 5/28/2004 10:25:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
vaiaata@IHUG.CO.NZ writes:
>Yes, it really is nonsense isn't it! But linguists have been claiming
>superior status for one language or another an such pseudo-scientific
>grounds since Babel!
I don't think it's accurate to imply the author is "claiming superior status"
for English. His claim appears to be a very narrow one: that English is more
efficient in conveying certain types of backgrounded information. I suspect
he finds that Spanish has advantages in other areas.
Doug