This is very true. The scientific method is extremely powerful. Technology boomed once it was refined and used on a global scale.
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There's no problem. Technology advances exponentially throughout history. It only accelerated even more as the scientific method got more refined.
That IS the problem.
Take a look of the population curve. Do you see a problem? OK, you don't.
That is because you have seen very few such kind of curves.
A kid sees a tiger and thinks it is only a big cat.
Making progress, learning new things,... is a problem?
How about that...
I actually do. But I fail to see how it relates to progress.
Progress makes people healthier and live longer, yes. Larger populations are a logical result. So, are you advocating of putting a ban on meds or something or...?
Right, right. I'm completely uninformed and I don't know anything about anything...
Thanks for the insult.
You may resume your anti-science, anti-progress, anti-learning preaching now.
why did the stone age last so long?
why did the stone age last so long?
3,800,000 years from the start of the stone age to the start of the bronze age.
only 6000 years from the start of the bronze age to the start of the space age.
Yuri Gagarin
How did you determine that there were no primitive early languages?
There are proto languages, but they are not primitive. The primitive roots are far too ancient to leave any traces.
Proto Indo European (PIE) is a very important and very well attested ancient precursor of most European and Indian languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
From that link:
"Since PIE was spoken by a prehistoric society, no genuine sample texts are available, but since the 19th century, modern scholars have made various attempts to compose example texts for purposes of illustration. These texts are educated guesses at best; Calvert Watkins in 1969 observed that in spite of its 150 years' history, comparative linguistics is not in the position to reconstruct a single well-formed sentence in PIE."
It sounds like this proto-language is purely hypothetical.
Look at the alphabets and languages over time. The earliest ones are the most complex. Rather than evolving over time, languages degrade. English is a prime example.
Look at the alphabets and languages over time. The earliest ones are the most complex. Rather than evolving over time, languages degrade. English is a prime example.
Look at the alphabets and languages over time. The earliest ones are the most complex. Rather than evolving over time, languages degrade. English is a prime example.
Source? To me it seems like more a matter of phonetic, vs character based writing independent of language age. We have examples such as the Latin alphabet adding G, Y, and Z which demonstrates that an alphabet can become larger (what i assume you mean by complexity). We've taken this already expanded alphabet and added J and various punctuation. Japanese has certainly become more complex with time, integrating multiple writing systems into common use, and recently adding even latin characters as well.Look at the alphabets and languages over time. The earliest ones are the most complex. Rather than evolving over time, languages degrade. English is a prime example.
No, they don't degrade; linguists would not use that kind of wording. Languages evolve, they don't degrade.
New Modern English is the most complex language that has ever existed, simply by sheer volume of vocabulary; it has far more words through loans than any other language. No degredation at all.
Why does English have so many words? Because they have been simplified to the point that it takes several words or a sentence to give the same meaning of a single word in many languages. We have also lost most of our gender specific words.
I don't follow. Having a lot of words allows for shades of meaning which would be absent without the wealth of synonyms available. If we take only the 1000 most common words, we may still be able to explain a saturn 5 rocket, but it's going to take a longer sentence to communicate what we are trying to get across.Why does English have so many words? Because they have been simplified to the point that it takes several words or a sentence to give the same meaning of a single word in many languages. We have also lost most of our gender specific words.
maybe because they are either profoundly ignorant of real history or they are complete and total liars with a agenda to control people concepts of time. .why did the stone age last so long?
why did the stone age last so long?
3,800,000 years from the start of the stone age to the start of the bronze age.
only 6000 years from the start of the bronze age to the start of the space age.
Yuri Gagarin
Do you have some examples for each of those fanciful claims?
I don't follow. Having a lot of words allows for shades of meaning which would be absent without the wealth of synonyms available. If we take only the 1000 most common words, we may still be able to explain a saturn 5 rocket, but it's going to take a longer sentence to communicate what we are trying to get across.
i think you may be confusing the extra language needed to communicate the shades of meaning in one language into another with some sort of inherent property of those languages rather than a function of the translation itself.
You seem to be trying to argue it both ways. On one hand, you are saying that the large number of words in English in general is a sign of simplicity, but then you turn around and claim that dropping certain forms of "you " make it simpler still. Would the addition of more "you" words make it more complex?The extra words needed to express a coherent thought are directly due to the simplification or degradation of the language.
Look at a simple term, love. How many types of love does that one word express? Several. Now, if you had a more precise language, such as Greek, you could have philia, eros, agape and storge.
Now think of all the ways 'you' is used. English used to be specific. Ye, you, your, thee, thou, thine.
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