tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post4667536024943864991..comments2023-06-23T07:16:59.149-07:00Comments on Sufficiently Wrong: Language Complexity, pt IMiekkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-12362937202477284032015-07-27T19:23:53.452-07:002015-07-27T19:23:53.452-07:00I'm citing you in this new post:
http://www.la...I'm citing you in this new post:<br />http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/australia-and-papua-new-guinea/are-languages-of-primitive-peoples-primitive.htmlAsya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-46042805192375518472015-07-27T15:28:50.460-07:002015-07-27T15:28:50.460-07:00You make some great points here!
One thing that s...You make some great points here!<br /><br />One thing that should be noted with respect to your "vowel-less Semitic is primitive" example is that claims such as this confuse LANGUAGE and SCRIPT, two entirely different things. The same language can be represented by using different scripts and the same script can be used for very different languages. Whether the vowel-less Semitic script is more primitive is a question that can be debated (one could even claim that while Semitic peoples had a writing system, however imperfect or "primitive", the linguistic ancestors of the critics had NONE!), but it has nothing to do with Semitic languages per se.Asya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.com