On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> 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.
