Re: Language comparison

> I think the deal is that there are a thousand criteria, possibly more, by
> which a human language can be judged.
Mm, quite probably. How many do you need, though, to get a good approximation?

> I cannot concieve of a single, general test of over-all quality. Not that
> I cannot think what this test might be, but that I cannot intellectually
> accept that such a test could exist.
Also agreed. Hence why I said that there would be multiple "tests of
overall quality" - one for every axiomatic set of goals. Quite
possibly an infinite number of these, too, though I think most could
likely be encompassed by a dozen at most.

> That will be my final word on the subject. Please, please, please, take
> this off list. Discussions of optimality are well and good, but we're
> getting beyond discussion and into dogma, and that is never fun for
> someone outside the conversation to read. Kill it.
Shall I call "Hitler"? :-P

- Sai