Journal Thelasko's Journal: Does The English Language Need A Rewrite? 1
Language is a tool to communicate information from one person to another. However, people spend enormous amounts of effort trying to get the syntax right (spelling, grammar, and punctuation) and still aren't able to effectively (... or is it affectively?) transmit ideas between people.
If English was a computer language, it would be ancient, and have so many patches that most people would declare it unmaintainable. (imagine an entire university department devoted to studying COBOL syntax!) Most software developers would have given up, and rewritten it from scratch centuries ago!
Efforts have been made to clean up English. The most notable being Noah Webster, of Webster's Dictionary fame. However, the work remains incomplete, and the complexity seems to be constantly increasing.
The English language is long overdue for a rewrite. Or at least a major cleanup. Maybe we can finally drop the backwards compatibility requirement with Latin!
If English was a computer language, it would be ancient, and have so many patches that most people would declare it unmaintainable. (imagine an entire university department devoted to studying COBOL syntax!) Most software developers would have given up, and rewritten it from scratch centuries ago!
Efforts have been made to clean up English. The most notable being Noah Webster, of Webster's Dictionary fame. However, the work remains incomplete, and the complexity seems to be constantly increasing.
The English language is long overdue for a rewrite. Or at least a major cleanup. Maybe we can finally drop the backwards compatibility requirement with Latin!
communication is, in fact, impossible (Score:2)
All languages evolve, continually. There's no stopping that, ever.
Thus, even any perfect re-make of any language is doomed to fail eventually. Well, maybe not some computer programming languages, but you know what I mean :)
And, as my 76 years of life have taught me, failure to communicate one's meaning is the very nature of language.
Best to enjoy the chaos.