Of course you are right. That is precisely why we speak Latin and Greek to this day.
Indrajit Gupta On Jul 6, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: >> Much more, including the full spreadsheet with all 21 'weirdness >> features' for all the languages, at the URL below. >> >> Also, it amuses me that this list says the most 'normal' language is >> Hindi. :-) > > It depresses me a little to say this, but market share matters more > than features in the end. The way we are headed in a hundred years or > less we will all speak the same language out of practicality for the > most part. > > It won't be the most technically efficient language, but the one > geopolitics elects as the winner. English and Mandarin are the only > two real contestants in this world view, and their present hegemony is > thanks mainly to a violent imperial past, and has nothing to do with > technical brilliance. >
