Comments on: America the Beautiful http://www.stc-techedit.org/2007/08/13/america-the-beautiful/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: malachai http://www.stc-techedit.org/2007/08/13/america-the-beautiful/#comment-305 malachai Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:02:00 +0000 http://www.stc-techedit.org/2007/08/13/america-the-beautiful/#comment-305 I don't think any linguists would "espouse the superiority of earthy Anglo-Saxon words over their genteel Latin counterparts." Linguists understand that the connection between sound and meaning is arbitrary. They also understand that no language is superior to another. English is not "the most varied and versatile language in the world." In fact, all languages have roughly the same amount of complexity and expressive power. I don’t think any linguists would “espouse the superiority of earthy Anglo-Saxon words over their genteel Latin counterparts.” Linguists understand that the connection between sound and meaning is arbitrary.

They also understand that no language is superior to another. English is not “the most varied and versatile language in the world.” In fact, all languages have roughly the same amount of complexity and expressive power.

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