I gathered Latin was really very logical,
although very different from English in some ways.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:54, archived)

It is very logical, but as English is from a different family of languages it can seem quite alien - not to mention hideously complicated.
You can have a four-word Latin sentence that looks quite unambiguous, but depending on the combination of cases and tenses used it might have a wide range of meanings. For that reason alone, I remember it was a real pain in the arse.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:58, archived)

It's got a lot of features that tend to disappear naturally if a language is left to its own devices,
such as semantic noun inflections. The evolution of creoles tends to favour word order based grammar, such as we have in English, I think.

I like the way Semitic languages work.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:00, archived)

It's my contention that the more sophisticated a culture becomes the simpler its language becomes

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:10, archived)

up to a point.
someone drew a graph of it for me once.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:11, archived)

If there's a graph then it's Science!

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:13, archived)

American English is supposed to be "simpler",
but it's only really morphologically simpler, which is just stupid.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:15, archived)

I can't understand a word of that cop show they all go on about

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:18, archived)

Newspeak doubleplusgood!

( applehead herp derp, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:16, archived)