Re: [lojban] language vs. economics

[Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl>]

Dnia środa, 4 kwietnia 2012 o 21:55:12 MorphemeAddict napisał(a):
> I found the following video very interesting.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=m9x8l9vXU9w
> 
> It may be that speakers of languages with a strong future time reference
> (e.g., English, Italian, Russian) have better lives economically than
> speakers of languages with weak future time reference (e.g., Chinese,
> German).
> 
> A language designed without a mandatory tense marker (in particular, for
> the future tense), e.g., Lojban, might be better for its speakers than
> having an obligatory future tense marker, e.g., Esperanto.

And if someone's interested, there's more on Language Log:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3756
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3792

Myself, I'm sceptical. But I'm not an expert ;)
-- 
Ecce Jezuch
"Silence has a definition, vocabulary of muted diction
Precise thought to miscomprehend, ambiguity in high resolution
Articulate expletive fiction open to misinterpretation - so precise"
- J. Walker

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