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<blockquote data-quote="Buzzardo" data-source="post: 1903891" data-attributes="member: 18120">Bing.&nbsp;&nbsp; For me, this is the lynch-pin issue on advancement on all technology.&nbsp; I truly beleive that language becomes the aquarium in which we swim.&nbsp; No language is perfect, and all end up imposing hidden barriers in thought patterns.&nbsp; For example, compare german to spanish.&nbsp; These are very different languages and affect the way native speakers of both languages can think.German is a componentized language, where you can create new words on the fly allowing a freedom of thought that many other languages can't cope with.&nbsp; (The germanic elements of english allow this too to a large degree.&nbsp; A new concept has evloved so we make compound words that become the new official words.&nbsp; I.E.... we have a new room in the house with a bath in it.&nbsp; It is the &quot;bath room&quot;.&nbsp; It is the bathroom.&nbsp; A new company has started selling large peices of paper with the latest news and current events printed on it.&nbsp; It is a paper with news.&nbsp; It is a &quot;news paper&quot;.&nbsp; It is a newspaper.&nbsp; Spanish by comparison doesn't allow that same on-the-fly adaptability.&nbsp; Each year some offcial institute in Spain issues the official new words that are needed by spanish speakers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Typically they issue about a thousand new words.&nbsp; Much pressure is on the spanish language because of this agonizing wait for the &quot;official&quot; new words, contributes to the bastardization of spanish.&nbsp; New english technological words like &quot;email&quot;, &quot;mouse&quot;, &quot;World Wide Web&quot;, and thousands of others develop too fast for spanish to &quot;officially&quot; assimilate.&nbsp; I don't speak french, but I assume it is a similar situation, given anglicized words are illegal in certain settings in french.&nbsp; Don't get me wrong here either.&nbsp; I am NOT knocking the romance languages at all.&nbsp; They have their own powerful strengths.&nbsp; But the purpose of this discussion is how language affects technological development, and the fact is that the germanic languages are much more conducive to technologically innovative thought.&nbsp;&nbsp; Spanish is more a spiritual and emotional language IMHO, which has a different set of benefits to a society.Back to Painandgreed's original point.&nbsp; The lack of a written language to a society is definately the KEY stumbling block.&nbsp;&nbsp; Without that, the printing press could never be invented, and without the printing press... Nothing else really can follow to any extent.&nbsp; The printing press if you really think about it is unquestionably the most important development to unlocking the industrial revolution.&nbsp; Final capstone point:&nbsp; What language was spoken by the man who invented the printing press?&nbsp;&nbsp; There you go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buzzardo, post: 1903891, member: 18120"] Bing. For me, this is the lynch-pin issue on advancement on all technology. I truly beleive that language becomes the aquarium in which we swim. No language is perfect, and all end up imposing hidden barriers in thought patterns. For example, compare german to spanish. These are very different languages and affect the way native speakers of both languages can think. German is a componentized language, where you can create new words on the fly allowing a freedom of thought that many other languages can't cope with. (The germanic elements of english allow this too to a large degree. A new concept has evloved so we make compound words that become the new official words. I.E.... we have a new room in the house with a bath in it. It is the "bath room". It is the bathroom. A new company has started selling large peices of paper with the latest news and current events printed on it. It is a paper with news. It is a "news paper". It is a newspaper. Spanish by comparison doesn't allow that same on-the-fly adaptability. Each year some offcial institute in Spain issues the official new words that are needed by spanish speakers. Typically they issue about a thousand new words. Much pressure is on the spanish language because of this agonizing wait for the "official" new words, contributes to the bastardization of spanish. New english technological words like "email", "mouse", "World Wide Web", and thousands of others develop too fast for spanish to "officially" assimilate. I don't speak french, but I assume it is a similar situation, given anglicized words are illegal in certain settings in french. Don't get me wrong here either. I am NOT knocking the romance languages at all. They have their own powerful strengths. But the purpose of this discussion is how language affects technological development, and the fact is that the germanic languages are much more conducive to technologically innovative thought. Spanish is more a spiritual and emotional language IMHO, which has a different set of benefits to a society. Back to Painandgreed's original point. The lack of a written language to a society is definately the KEY stumbling block. Without that, the printing press could never be invented, and without the printing press... Nothing else really can follow to any extent. The printing press if you really think about it is unquestionably the most important development to unlocking the industrial revolution. Final capstone point: What language was spoken by the man who invented the printing press? There you go. [/QUOTE]

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