Best Language in the World?

Whatever language R2D2 spoke.

Finnish, because I learnt to swear in it.

I find Spanish is a good language as it has a lot of information in its words. For example, instead of having the words "brother" and "sister" in Spanish there is just the one word with the end letter changed to identify gender - "hermano" and "hermana".It isn't perfect (there are two verbs for "to be" - ser and estar), but it is better than English IMO

The only people who could begin to answer this are linguists.

Pali, apparently there are only about 50 people who understand it.

Finnish, because I learnt to swear in it.

MrsSolidSnake

Thank you Dudesons! :D

[QUOTE="Anti-Venom"]sign languagewstfld

Not which one is your favourite or which one sounds best, but which one is the best based on things like:

- How fast can ideas be communicated

- Ideas divided by letters or time to speak them (how long does it take to explain and idea)

- Amount words that are distinguishable from one another as not to cause confusion

- Ability to be relatively easy to learn

- Ability to communicate complex ideas more easily

English is the only language I know well enough, and I think it's good but I'm just curious as to what the best language out there actually is.

brandontwb

Orcish, gutterspeak, thalassian or common. Still trying to decide....

:D

Finnish, because I learnt to swear in it.

MrsSolidSnake

Im not sure. But i disagree with your criteria.

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Finnish, because I learnt to swear in it.

BiancaDK

Thank you Dudesons! :D

Between japanese and german for me.

Between japanese and german for me.

Espada12

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Between japanese and german for me.

optiow

I like the sound of both, and they are very "aggressive" languages if you must. Plus I like practical languages, 25% of europe speaks german and Japan is an economic super power who happen to also be very traditional in a sense. From my short interaction with them in a company I used to work for, they respect you alot more if you know their language and culture (I didn't, our international rep did however.)

English for sure. French sounds nice too.

English for its easy ability to adapt and change due to its openness and lack of formality.

Its like a living entity of sorts.

Spanish for me. You can say things in so many different ways

English is the easiest

German is the strangiest

Spanish and Italian are the funiest

Greek are the more perfect and hardest in terms of grammar.

Those arethe 5 languages I know so don't believe me:P

Newspeak.

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[QUOTE="MrsSolidSnake"]

Finnish, because I learnt to swear in it.

MrsSolidSnake

Thank you Dudesons! :D

'Cos that's how I learned it, and we are both from the same generation so we probably watch/watched somewhat similar stuff. :P

That would be mathematics my friend. ;)

That would be mathematics my friend. ;)

entropyecho

Shame on you!

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Not the language of mama-patrida? :x

Shame on you!

Teenaged

That would be mathematics my friend. ;)

entropyecho

It kinda' lacks the whole 'spoken' spectrum of languages though. =P

Plus, everyone knows Greece invented Mathematics so there you go...

Plus, everyone knows Greece invented Mathematics so there you go...

entropyecho

It kinda' lacks the whole 'spoken' spectrum of languages though. =P

BiancaDK

English.

I like Latin too, but it's kind of annoying learning all of the present, past, future tenses.

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It kinda' lacks the whole 'spoken' spectrum of languages though. =P

entropyecho

Which is also a relatively inefficient means of communication, compared to the likes of english. =P

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Actionscript beats the two!

The correct answer is Klingon.

Oleg_Huzwog

I found some of these entries interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

I do understand that the language with the most native speakers may not translate (pun intended) to a "better" language, but it's interesting nonetheless.

I found some of these entries interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

I do understand that the language with the most native speakers may not translate (pun intended) to a "better" language, but it's interesting nonetheless.

entropyecho

Wow, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. I was surprised by Mandarin on top. Spanish is spoken in many countries so, that wasn't too crazy, but Mandarin?!Snipes_2

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I found some of these entries interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

I do understand that the language with the most native speakers may not translate (pun intended) to a "better" language, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Snipes_2

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It kinda' lacks the whole 'spoken' spectrum of languages though. =P

BiancaDK

Which is also a relatively inefficient means of communication, compared to the likes of english. =P

∀x∈L,∃! x: B(X) => x>y, ∀y∈L/{x} (For a partial order >) . As compared to, For every language in the world, there exists a language which is deemed to be the best. Unfortunately, my argument is moot, since no one would really have any idea of what I'm trying to say without a proper declaration of terms in English.

Anyhow, I'd say that mathematics is the best language somehow.

I'm Sicilian, so..... I vote Italiano!

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I found some of these entries interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

I do understand that the language with the most native speakers may not translate (pun intended) to a "better" language, but it's interesting nonetheless.

gameguy6700

Yea and the funny thing is though Cantonese is also taking up some of the chinese population! So if everyone spoke mandarin :O!!!

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Thank you Dudesons! :D

'Cos that's how I learned it, and we are both from the same generation so we probably watch/watched somewhat similar stuff. :P