Re: Comparison of philosophical languages

Joe wrote:
>
>What people are trying to say to you is that -there is no such thing as a
>perfect language-.  Nothing more, nothing less.  English is exceptionally
>difficult, but no language is impossible.  Especially if you have no
>language
>at first.
I'll happily agree that English orthography is pretty complex and not
terribly regular, and that the English vowel system is somewhat, er,
sophisticated, but orthography is surely pretty peripheral, and every
language has a "sophisticated" bit or two. What makes you think that
English, as a whole, is "exceptionally difficult"? I've never heard of data
suggesting that anglophone children has later speech development on average
that children learning other languages, f'rinstance.

                                              Andreas

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