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RE: Understanding Language and Its Place In Society
Volapuk... hilarious! I've heard of esparanto. Dominant languages can be refined in accuracy rather than invent a new one. Sure one language is more convenient, but bilingualism has recently been shown to indicate benefits in the brain as we age. So there is some benefit to communicating with two languages. Interesting video.
The interesting part is that languages do inspire different sets of emotions. As with the many Chinese dialects found like Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, etc - I can say that a dialect like Hokkien is generally very rude-sounding and really translates emotionally (can attest to that since my hometown is filled with Hokkien-speakers)
I think any language sounds rude especially after people get together have have a few drinks. Even just getting together to eat and socialise has this effect. Hokkien may not be unique in that way. Try going to local cafe or dimsum restaurants in Hong Kong during peak meal time, one would think Cantonese is rude-sounding too. :-)
It's a joke here that Hokkien monologues talking about mundane stuff still sounds rude as hell lol! Yeah I suppose it's that way. I used to wonder if there's 2 alternate univeses that are exactly the same, except that I was born learning different languages ONLY, what would have turned out differently? Personally, I wonder if I would've been a very different person if my main language is Chinese instead of English.
i heard of esperanto too. I heard it's bit like Spanish.