A video explaining this in Chinese: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1EQ4y1g7k4
(I cannot translate it I am afraid.)
In summary, Chinese doesn't borrow words from other langs, so it is superior compared to phonographic langs like English.
An anology using programming terms: Chinese has a better underlying code base, so it doesn't cause that many issues in the process of continuous evolution.
Arguably it is the best lang in this world.
It is just too f**king good.
Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
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Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
What about Bōlán? That's borrowed. Or àizībìng.
Now, Navajo, that's a REAL non-borrower.
Now, Navajo, that's a REAL non-borrower.
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Squirrels chase koi . . . chase squirrels
My Kankonian-English dictionary: 90,000 words and counting
31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!
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Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
And yet this new thread is even less civil-seeming than that one.Dormouse559 wrote: ↑ I have locked this thread. Oligey, perhaps you should take some time to cool off and get a sense of the people here on the CBB and their interests. Then, if you want to make a new thread, you should choose a topic that doesn’t involve you enforcing prerequisites. It evidently leads to more frustrating back-and-forth over qualifications than it does productive conversation.
No language is superior to another, and arguing that one's language ─ or any language ─ is better than someone else's is incredibly ego-/ethnocentric. I'm surprised that you came back this soon ─ less than twenty-four hours ─ with such a similar, and yet so much worse worded, argument.
I assume this will get locked very quickly, but I wanted to say that anyway.
As I said on the other thread: you'd be a good auxlanger.
Edit since Khemehekis posted:
Absolutely! Navajo practically uses its native roots ─ it certainly hasn't taken any international loanwords, though some ancient words might have origins in other languages ─ for everything.Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 Jan 2024 05:22 What about Bōlán? That's borrowed. Or àizībìng.
Now, Navajo, that's a REAL non-borrower.
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Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
Ah yes, the chidí naaʼnaʼí beeʼeldǫǫh bikááʼ dah naaznilígíí language. Very compact. No borrowing. Very pure. Without 25 homonyms for the word Shí. Always putting women first (in the sentence) and also ensuring only the men get frontrow seats to the verb.
No extra tones. No unrepresentative historical spelling - logographic or alphabetic. No dialects. No colonial spread. No nothing. Just straight, pure, sweet Diné bizaad.
I swear the only thing that would make it better would be a Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system (no, not the good one, the stupid one) and maybe a few more kids speaking it. But unfortunately, only the good L-rd is perfect.
I truly think this should be the next Esperanto/Volapuk/Lojban/Ithkuil/English. Very easy to use!
No extra tones. No unrepresentative historical spelling - logographic or alphabetic. No dialects. No colonial spread. No nothing. Just straight, pure, sweet Diné bizaad.
I swear the only thing that would make it better would be a Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics writing system (no, not the good one, the stupid one) and maybe a few more kids speaking it. But unfortunately, only the good L-rd is perfect.
I truly think this should be the next Esperanto/Volapuk/Lojban/Ithkuil/English. Very easy to use!
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Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
Excuse me! English is also ideographic: look at the word "bed". This word looks like a bed. My Chinese teacher told me this, and since he speaks Simplified Chinese, his mind has been purified of any incorrect ideas, since there are only characters for things which are true, he cannot think of anything that isn't true. It must be true. In fact, English is just a variety of Chinese (like Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese and Japanese).
Please! English is not very pornographic. I know several languages more pornographic than English (such as for example Romanian or Czech).
Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
Ditto for Piraha - both that and Navajo have gone at least 400 years without borrowing. I'm not sure Simplified Chinese has gone even a hundred without borrowing.
(granted, Simplified Chinese might try to go without borrowing, like the Korean of North Korea tries...but thats not the same as Does Not Borrow)
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Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
3SDeductiveLanguage(1Sense=1Sign=1Sound) its name is its perfect definition,
given the first equality it uses a perfect logographic script based on pictograms,
and given the second, this script is also a syllabary,
which on a particular mode that separates consonants and vowels is also an alphabet...
in other words, 3SDL has a pictographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic script all in one...
given the first equality it uses a perfect logographic script based on pictograms,
and given the second, this script is also a syllabary,
which on a particular mode that separates consonants and vowels is also an alphabet...
in other words, 3SDL has a pictographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic script all in one...
Re: Being ideographic makes Standard Chinese a superior language
Locking this thread. I will explain why over here
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