Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

Tundra Slosek wrote:

> (speaking of which, what's a good second natlang
> to learn to break me of my assumptions that the "English way" is the only
> way?)
Just about anything non-Indo-European, such as Arabic, Japanese,
Swahili, Yoruba, etc., but Spanish, for example, will go a little way,
but it still shares the same basic structure.

> It reminds me of something a native German speaker pointed out to me a
> number of years ago...
>
> "That beach is very empty" implies the presence of more people on the
> beach than "That beach is empty".
And "more perfect" isn't as good as "perfect"; I think that both of
those could be thought of as an elided "nearly", i.e., "that beach is
very nearly empty", "a more nearly perfect union"

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