... the features of a language have some functional use, they may not be strictly necessary. Tenses, for example. Many languages have them, but not all. And in fact you can get by without them based on context. In English, we might say, "Yesterday, I ... So, strangely the large, widely-spoken languages are usually simpler than small, obscure ones. But they've still got plenty of dammit! ...

I recollect the first time I went to Mexico to take a Learn Spanish Course It's a gorgeous country. Not one of us could talk more than some words of Spanish. We had an obscure concept of the way in which the Mexican currency worked, but we were clueless when it came to how much to pay folk at restaurants and the shops. Let's just say it was an engaging experience (and I am sure we were ...

... remarks I explore the possibility of ontological scopes of languages. I suggest that even though the trans-ontological language is the totality ... one must descend from this trans-ontological language to the languages of "things." The authentic whole reality ... Sciences (1978) is the only Western-language translation of the obscure and textually corrupt chapters of the Mozi that purportedly ...

... , until I found the link at wikipedia. It’s a rather obscure holiday (at least I consider something obscure that has been around since I was ten years old and I never heard about it), the purpose of which is ... will be English-speakers, since I’m writing in English. But I’ll say hello in a few other languages anyway, just in case. Hello! ¡Hola! Salut! Hallo! Aloha! Saluton! ...

... and Eastern Christians, especially Greeks and Armenians. Few Muslims knew any non-Muslim languages well, the knowledge of which was considered unnecessary or even suspect. Consequently, the translators of Greek and other ... a German professor of Semitic languages, due to potential threats writes under the pseudonym Christoph Luxenberg. According to him, certain obscure passages of the chapters or ...

... , I noticed a number of people rhetorically asking if there is really room for more programming languages. I’ve seen the same sentiment expressed before, seemingly whenever someone releases a pet language (Arc, ... to develop a native, cross-platform application, you have to give them all up or resort to using a relatively obscure language like Haskell. It’s unfair to expect C++ to evolve ...