Timeline for Which language is more complex, English or French? Is it even possible to objectively measure a language's complexity?
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| Mar 7, 2022 at 3:05 | comment | added | Numeri | @curiousdannii I agree! On the other hand, the fact that the complexity would adjust over time suggests to me that the answer can't be that all languages are equally complex, but that any overly or underly complex features will be adjusted over time to match human communication, making actually measuring any differences between natural languages impossible, or perhaps just extremely difficult. | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 15:56 | comment | added | Franglishman24 | Yeah, it's very hard to apply it to real world languages. English and French are always evolving. They are so similar and so different too that It feels near impossible to give an actual analysis of the complexities that one has over the other. | |
| Mar 6, 2022 at 2:40 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | Just like a pidgin, any conlang which is used productively by a speech community will undergo a process akin to creolisation, and will no doubt adjust in complexity. | |
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| S Mar 5, 2022 at 10:38 | history | answered | Numeri | CC BY-SA 4.0 |