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To: The Philosopher who wrote (60891)	10/3/2002 12:42:27 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Language is not intrinsically tied up with what makes a society successful, which is the main criterion I have used to recommend one system of values over another. If I used a similar criterion with language, I would say that the use of an alphabet is better than the use of ideograms; that heavily inflected languages are inferior to languages that rely mainly on syntax; that languages that have too many sharply varying dialects are inferior to more uniform languages; that languages with no substantial literature are inferior; and so forth.......

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