Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> Cars are IMO analogous to _conlangs_, not to natlangs.  Yep, when I come to
> choose a conlang for writing a computer program I do have a choice & some
> are better at certain things than another.
Definitely.  I could create a conlang that was definitely inferior to
any natlang, so it seems logical that, if I had sufficient skill, I
could create on that was superior.  Whether or not any human being has
sufficient skill is another question (and I'll partly define superior:
better able to describe a range of experiences, regardless of difficulty
of learning)

> >You can't say that without self-contradiction, because it is
> >a value judgement to do so: "Value judgements are bad!"
>
> Eh???
>
> Value judgments are subjective.  The scientific way of doing things is to
> use _objective_ data.
It is contradictory to say "value judgements are bad", because "bad" is
a value judgement itself.  "Value judgements are unscientific" is what
you're getting at.  THAT is not self-contradictory.

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