>capitalism vs communism>Catholicism/Protestantism vs Orthodoxycoincidentally:>simplified languages vs complex languagesWhy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOJ4p8e7NQ
>>25191424Complex languages leads to more precision, more precision lead to better theology, so they stayed orthodox.
>>25191424Why did you leave out Finish (15) and Estonian (14)?
>>25191486No. The languages have evolved to become simpler. When the Catholic/Orthodox schism happened Western languages weren't as simple as now.
>>25191495Because those are agglutinative languages and the number of cases is not comparable between Indo-European languages and agglutinative languages.
>>25191495Hungarian, Basque and Turkish are also left out. Do you notice a pattern?
>>25191502then why more words/neologisms/new ideas?new logoi.that's like saying the law got simplier* over time while naturally added more law (even laws to remove previous laws).>*complexier > more complex
>>25191788fuck off
>>25191424Serbo-croatian has 7 cases, not 4
>>25191840aren't those a relatively new linguistic inventions?Serbian can be spoken intelligibly without those cases; they're kind of just sophisticated fluff used as class distinctions between specialized cosmopolitans and simple peasant villagers.then again you can look at the complexity of the Chinese/East Asian language groups with their rote character systems of hieroglyphics as a filter for their historic meritocracy (using the artificial complexities of language as a future predictor for competency like a proto-IQ test).
>>25191882>using the artificial complexities of language as a future predictor for competency like a proto-IQ test.i.e. a linguistic heuristic for intelligence
>>25191901... and we all use vocabulary (incl. memes) here on /lit/ to test each others' intelligence.good prose become shibboleths.
>>25191820no. get smarter so I have people to talk to.
>>25191882a correlation between SAT and IQ scores seems to back up this theory.
>>25191882By new, what do you exactly mean? I'm, to admit, not well versed in the history of the language. As for "sophisticated fluff", you're overestimating it. All Shtokavian dialects have seven cases, except Torlakian which has only three. I'm from rural ass Bosnia and we use all seven cases in everyday talk, just like a person from say Belgrade does. Kajkavian usually has 6 (vocative is not used) and Chakavian I think also has the standard seven.
>>25191424I think slovenian "wins" because of the dual which brings total variations to 18.
>>25191486>Complex languages leads to more precisionDo you have actual evidence for this?
>>25191882Writing systems are not languages; a property of the writing system is not a property of the language. Also, there's a dialect of Mandarin spoken in Central Asia that uses the Cyrillic alphabet:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_language
