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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1904219" data-attributes="member: 7240">So what technologies did the Mexica employ that other American civilizations did not?Actually, you appeared, from my reading, to be stating that Germanic languages were better for communicating technological information than Romance languages were because they were word-building languages. If I've been successful in disabusing you of that notion, I'm pleased. (The danger of that theory is it places Turkic language as the most technically useful.)Also, I think the Charlemagne quote you are using is either apocryphal or mistranslated because French and German were acknowledged for the first time as separate languages 29 years after his death. Also, according to his capitularies, it is very clear that God is supposed to be addressed only in Latin. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I heard a very compelling argument that the Inca Quipu system was actually the language closest to making that incredible breakthrough. [For more on this, I'll want to be prompted so as to not make the hijack of the thread complete.] Regardless of whether your language is phonetic (like Latin), syllabic (like Arabic) or symbolic (like Chinese) you still have to map your language from sound or meaning codes into numeric codes. I don't think any of the systems is more or less conducive to such mapping. While one could argue that by having very few codes, we are closer to binary and are only removed from it by a power of 5, one could equally argue that the need to convert language into some simplified, numeric construct would be more obvious to an individual operating within the highly complex Chinese system of thousands of characters.</blockquote>

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