Re: Llirine: How to creat a language
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 22:06 |
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cheng Zhong Su wrote:
> Answer: Not only my English no good but my Chinese no
> good also. I don't beleive any one can say he is good
> in two languages. The reason is every language need
> some one life time study . Unless you got two lives,
> you won't be able good in more than one language. Is
> that the reason that we can't discuss language. I
> believe the effort of linguists is comparing each
> language and find out what is good what isn't, not
> just learning learning and learning.
> Su Cheng Zhong
wo3de da2fu4:
No. Linguists do not make value judgements. Linguists "just" learn learn
learn.
Only crazy auxlangers imagine one language is "better" and another
language "worse."
As for Mandarin, I very much like it, and although the writing system is a
migraine on paper, I'd hate to see a single jot of it changed (changed
further, perhaps I ought to say, since several jots *have* been changed
since the so-called "cultural revolution.")
--Patrick