Are all languages equal?

[Anonymous]

I know all people are equal, but what about languages? Or are some languages better than others? Examples include Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, English, Japanese, Turkish, Persian.

Yes, all languages are equal.

No, some languages are better than others.

[purplepoppy]

I don't think people are equal because some are clearly better than others. Human equality is more about legal rights and fair treatmenr than ability or status.

I think a good way to judge a language is to look how many words are in common usage. English has around 171476. French 135000 Spanish 93000 words. Obviously the other hand the celtic languages are near impossible to count because a single verb can have several variations. Welsh for example has between 45000 to 7 million words.

So following the word count rule English is better than Spanish but you could argue many of the words are superfluous. Large, big, huge, enormous, gargantuan, etc do we really need them all.

[CrystalPeak]

All languages are equal, except some languages are more equal than others.
The American language is my favorite. 😹

[slatyb]

An author, I can't find the quote, said that English was more expressive because it's basically two languages mashed together -- Old English, and Norman French. So there are two words for almost everything with different connotations.

[uzumymw]

All languages are equal in how they should be treated

Some are harder or less important to the entire world but that doesn't mean we should make them feel different

[NathanDavis]

not even all of the Spanish is equal... lmao

[Dargil]

Air traffic controllers all over the world use English. So there's that.

[beefcakebradybatson]

I believe languages are roughly equal in importance.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

The fuck are you talking about

[Jeff51]

You could just say no more to middle east.

[kurdistan_amed]

Kurdishhhh ✌️🚥