Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

Nik Taylor wrote:

> > I would say rather that  it is not possible to determine at all one way or
> > the other.  We might assume that all languages are roughly equally
> > complex, but we have no means by which to evaluate our assumption.
> > It will stand as just that.
>
> That was pretty much my point.  However, I feel that if there *were* a
> language of much greater complexity, or much greater usefullness, that
> it would be obvious that it were so.
But how would we know when to draw the line of the obvious?
Science is the march of knowledge from the intuitive to the conscious --
will we always only intuit such scales of complexity?  It seems to me
that, if we are at all interested ins scientific rigor, we must demand a
method by which things can be evaluated -- we must have a standard,
one which derives its being from logical linguistic axioms.  The question
then is:  do such axioms exist?

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