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

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:10, archived)
up to a point.
someone drew a graph of it for me once.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:11, archived)
If there's a graph then it's Science!

(, 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.
(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:15, archived)
I can't understand a word of that cop show they all go on about

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:18, archived)
Newspeak doubleplusgood!

(, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:16, archived)