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Old 05-Sep-2005, 10:42
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Default Re: Linguistic Predictions

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Originally Posted by Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim
There are practically no boundaries. All sciences are linked and have become inter-disciplinary. In Europ the EU and the single currency have also removed borders. Thus growth or density of information necessitates a tool to communicate and interact faster. Human language might not be capable of keeping pace with this growth. Academic language uses more nouns than verbs (nominalization) beacuse you can pack more information into nouns than verbs and you can do a lot of other things on nouns. You can count them, modify them.... Verbs in comparison are verbal or verbose (meaning: more talk, less matter). They i.e. verbs are more subjective, dynamic (no wonder the majority of verbs are dynamic and not stative), show change of time and mood which you don't have in nouns. Nouns are static, neutral to change and emotions and more objective. So we need something beyond English either as an adapted natural language or an artificial functioning next to our natural one. It can be any tool.
It's clear now, Jamshid. Thank you.

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