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Eight or nine years ago, I received a visit from a kollel student in his late 20s. The young man in question had been one of the outstanding students in one of Israel's most prestigious yeshivot. Yet by the time he came to visit me, he was angry, even bitter, over what he viewed as a lack of communal leadership over the increasingly untenable financial situation of many kollel students.Two months ago, he came to visit me again. Gone was all the bitterness that had been so evident at our first meeting. "I could never in my wildest imagination have anticipated the changes that have taken place in recent years," he told me. He is right. Despite the conservative nature of haredi (ultra- Orthodox) society – evolutionary, not revolutionary – change has been rapid.The change has come about in two areas. The first is in the acquisition of training for entry into the job market. Today there are close to 3,000 haredi young men and women in academic degree programs. Academic campuses in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak each offer courses under the auspices of Israel's leading universities to over 1,000 students, and colleges have established programs for haredim in a number of professions.In addition, there has been a massive jump in vocational training. The Haredi Center for Technological Studies, the largest group of vocational training centers, has more than doubled its enrollment to close to 2,000 over the past four years. These are not rinkydink programs, but in subjects such as architecture, civil engineering, computer programming and hardware, with national exams.Much of this expansion has been made possible by the infusion of millions of dollars annually from abroad to provide scholarships for haredim – mostly men – pursuing academic or vocational degrees. Whereas previously haredi men feared to leave kollel and lose even the minimal kollel stipend or to take on the costs of years of academic or vocational training, the scholarships have made it possible for them to contemplate the jump. The private funding has been generously matched, in many cases, by the Joint Distribution Committee and the Israeli government.The second area of rapid change has been in army service, both in the number of 18-year-olds entering Nahal Haredi, which is now over battalion strength and will soon have its first reserve unit, and in the number of older, married men entering special programs developed primarily by the air force and IDF intelligence. The growth of the latter has been rapid and offers the greatest possibility for expansion.In return for sophisticated training in an environment that takes careful account of the religious needs of the haredi enlistees, haredim are helping the IDF meet some of its most critical manpower needs. The re-enlistment rate of married haredi men in the Shahar Kachol program has been the highest in the IDF.YET THESE changes in haredi society have taken place largely under the secular radar. In part, that is a function of a certain mythology – shared to a degree by haredim themselves – about haredi society.According to that mythology, hundreds of thousands of haredim are automatons who tune in every morning to receive their marching orders from the senior Torah leaders (gedolim) of the community, which orders they march like lemmings to fulfill.Thus if there have been no orders from the gedolim on the front pages of the major haredi daily papers (nor will there be) announcing that all but the most accomplished scholars should go out to work, the assumption is that nothing major has changed.But no society, even the most totalitarian, functions in such a fashion based exclusively on directives from above. All societies follow a more complex dialectic, a mixture of changes based on new directives or laws from above and trends from below based on the accumulated decisions of hundreds of thousands of individual decision-makers. And haredi society is no exception.At least two factors are driving change from below within haredi society. The first is the impossibility of applying an elite model, based on a few hundred highly idealistic, self-selected, largely homogeneous group of young men who rallied to the Hazon Ish's call in the early Fifties to rebuild the citadels of Torah learning destroyed by the Holocaust, to a much more heterogenous society of over half a million souls, of all intellectual and spiritual levels.The second is the inability of large numbers of haredim to support themselves. Contrary to popular belief, Israel's levels of social benefits are low by Western standards, and do not come close to covering the expenses of large haredi families. Nor do haredim receive cheap apartments from the government for their children. It is hard to find an apartment in the major haredi centers, even one purchased on paper, for much less than $300,000.One breadwinner is simply no longer enough to support a large family. And as economist Glenn Yago has sharply observed, "Trends that cannot continue forever, won't." The model of the past two decades of nearly every haredi man in full-time Torah studies for as long as possible after marriage is increasingly unsustainable.THE CHANGES taking place in haredi society will never take place fast enough to satisfy the secular public. The pent-up anger is too great. Yet the choices made by the secular leadership will to a large extent determine whether current trends continue or a major pushback develops in the haredi community.Incentives to speed the entry of haredi men into the workforce are far from exhausted. A negative income tax and allowing men, and not just women, to benefit from child allowances are just two examples.Maintaining the accommodations to haredi religious needs in the IDF is also crucial. The more common it is to see former kollel students in uniform in haredi neighborhoods, the less IDF service will be seen as somehow not haredi. And the more young unmarried haredi men who do not view themselves as suited for years in full-time yeshiva study will join combat units within the Nahal Haredi framework.The recent resignation of the chief rabbi of the air force, citing his inability to ensure the continuation of accommodations to which he had committed himself, was a major setback in this regard.On the other hand, if the government resorts to coercion, instead of incentives, to expedite present trends, it will only succeed in giving credence to those within haredi society who claim the secular public is motivated primarily by hatred of Torah and those who study it and thereby strengthen the most conservative elements in haredi society. The demand that all unmarried yeshiva students, with the exception of some specified number of iluim (geniuses), undertake IDF service or some form of civilian service is of this nature. It will be perceived not as some minor tinkering with the structure of haredi society, but as a frontal attack on the primary value of that society: the primacy of Torah study.In the haredi world view, Torah study – all Torah study, not just that of certified geniuses – is the most potent trigger for Divine blessing to the world. No one can predict at 18 who will become the greatest scholars, for that success is only partly a function of IQ.Nor is there a single standard of greatness: The debate between whether depth of reasoning or breadth of knowledge is more important goes back to the Talmud itself. Finally, the battle over a limited number of places in yeshivot would tear apart haredi society the way the Cantonist decrees tore apart Eastern European communities in the late 19th century."FAIRNESS" IS an important societal value, but it is not the only one. The next American election, for instance, will turn to a large extent on President Barack Obama's preference for equality of outcomes, in the name of "fairness," over economic growth and renewed prosperity. In the same vein, I wonder whether most Israelis would choose greater equality of IDF service, even at the price of increased danger.I spent Shabbat two weeks ago with the chairman of the non-profit organization behind Nahal Haredi. He is himself a decorated Vietnam veteran, and he shared with me a story from his army service that had an impact on his own religious development.While in the service he met and officer wearing a kippa. The officer told him that he was a West Point graduate. One day in a course on history's greatest battles, he asked the colonel teaching the class why he had not mentioned the Maccabees or the Six Day War. After class, the colonel called him to his office and lambasted him for embarrassing him in class."Of course we study the battles involving the Jews," the colonel said, "but they all have an inexplicable element to them, and that's why we don't teach them."Maybe, just maybe, that inexplicable element is the Divine protection aroused in its strongest form, by dedication to His Torah. At the beginning of the portion of Matot, we read three times "a thousand from each Tribe." The Midrash explains the threefold repetition as referring to three different groups of one thousand from each Tribe – one thousand to fight in the battles, one thousand to form the rearguard and guard the supplies, and one thousand to study and pray. Each group was an indispensable part of a successful Jewish army.No country faces the magnitude of threats to its existence comparable to Israel; no country is in as great need of Divine protection.The writer is director of Jewish Media Resources, has written a regular column in The Jerusalem Post Magazine since 1997, and is the author of eight biographies of modern Jewish leaders.
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Steven Adler Says Reunited 'Appetite' Guns N' Roses Lineup Would Be Better Than Ever
In the unlikely event that the most famous lineup of Guns N' Roses should reunite, Steven Adler says they'd likely produce the best album of their career.
Guns N' Roses came at exactly the right time in rock 'n' roll. For the better part of the '80s, rock music had become bloated, stagnate and full of itself. Still reeling from the disco and punk onslaughts of the late '70s, rock 'n' roll was searching for an edge at the start of the next decade … and instead found a bunch of guys who wanted to play dress-up with their moms' mascara and their kid sisters' Top 40 records. Guns N' Roses changed all that with their ferocious debut album in 1987. 'Appetite for Destruction' still sounds like a momentous moment in rock history – the moment where rock music seized back the reins from the decade's dolled-up posers. It kicks hard, and for good reason: The original quintet was a self-destructive machine that made it through only one more set of albums (the 'Use Your Illusion' records) before falling apart.
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Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal has reportedly been asked not to comment on his status with Guns N' Roses, something that has made promoting a new solo project more difficult.
Axl Rose has surely received some obscenely huge offers to reunite the classic Guns N' Roses lineup for a new album or tour, but he's obviously never accepted any of them.
Axl Rose catches a lot of flak for the way he ended up seizing iron-fisted control of Guns N' Roses, but he had his reasons.
Guns N' Roses launched a suitably massive tour behind their sprawling, double-disc 'Use Your Illusion' albums in 1991, including a string of joint headlining dates with Metallica.
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There were several long blog threads on this issue, and they generated a lot of interesting discussion. My own feeling is that a lot of people would be inclined to retaliate against someone who disliked their photo if the disliker were identified. People can get pretty emotional about their photos, and it's quite disheartening to have one get knocked out of a visible position because of one dislike. I am not the retaliatory type myself, but the internet is a crazy place, full of all sorts of people. I would even fear that retaliation could extend beyond the confines of the 500px website. Therefore, if I had to identify myself when disliking a photo, I simply wouldn't do it, even if the photo was the worst possible case of artlessness, pornography, violence, racism, etc. (Indeed, I would be all the more afraid of photographers posting that kind of content.)
I think enough people would feel the same way I do that use of the dislike button would all but disappear if people had to identify themselves. And in that case, it would be the same as having no dislike button at all.
It was a good step in the right direction when the folks at 500px decided to put an affection minimum on the privilege of using the dislike button. At least now it's more difficult for people to have a bunch of different accounts set up in order to dislike photos for self-serving purposes. Now those people have to get each account up to something like 190 affection before they can use them in that way.
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Yesterday I absolutely noticed the drop in monster damage. I was loving it. I did 20+ key runs yesterday, and I didnt have a pet die the entire time. I was totally creaming the monsters in mp6 all day like butter. This morning I noticed I was having more trouble. However, and hour and a half ago I log back in and discover that I can barely do mp6 anymore. Yesteray, I was annoyed by reflect damage, but I never worried about it. Sometimes I would stop bears for a second and cast toads because it didnt hurt as bad, but that's about it. I certainly never ran from them, lol. Today, I am doing everything I can to avoid reflect damage because after casting a couple bears and I am DEAD, lights out. YEsterday I could easily spam most of a mana pool worth of bears before I said ok thats enough for a second. Also, as I mentioned, my pets are dying today, and they werent yesterday. YEs, this simply cannot be ignored. My pets are dying all the time now, when yesterday they were practically invincible. Before the MP damage reduction hotfix on the 23rd, I was doin MUCH BETTER than I am now. I know its wierd, and I know it sounds like BS, but its true. EVery word of what I have said is true. I have no clue why. I am hoping I am not alone in this. Everything hurts way more than it should. period. |
I noticed this also, i think something in the lats patch went all the otrher way arround, and they buffed the dmg in stead of decreasing it.
My pets weren't dying in ACT 7, now on act 5 they get slaughtered. I am also, get close to one shot in mp5 now, where before i did not used to move AT ALL from anything, being a wd tank spec. |
omg thankyou for posting that .. i feel like im not friggin crazy now. :D
and yes i am also tank spec .. especially when i put on one of my shields tho. even with this setup i have gone out of my way to have a lot of dodge armor and resist as you see .. it is no longer paying off. i was doing ok before the 23rd .. yesterday i was doing awesome .. today i am struggling.
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omg thankyou for posting that .. i feel like im not friggin crazy now. :D Indeed the damage went up quite a bit, even more than before the hotfix, i think something went wrong when they applied the patch. My issue is now that my pets are dying even before the cooldown is up, so i am left with kiting... They did not used to die, especially in mp7, now on mp5-6 i can BARELY keep them alive, i run most of the time after health globes. |
Since the dmg nerf was based around affixes dealing too much damage, could it be the affxies you are facing? Try to keep track, which should keep the tinfoil hats to a minimum.
everything is hurting more. this is not a tinfoil hat issue. im not convinced of some conspiracy here. i am absolutely sure that the damage i am recieving is much higher today than yesterday. its not even close.
Edited by LordSpanky#1497 on 10/25/2012 1:14 PM PDT
Since the dmg nerf was based around affixes dealing too much damage, could it be the affxies you are facing? Try to keep track, which should keep the tinfoil hats to a minimum. Yes, like Lord said, everything is hurting, melee , afixes, everything. Cant be a coincidence, i can feel the damage as i am tank, i usually tank MP8-9 for my dh and wiz friend, especially ubers, and now my pets in SOLO play get slaughtered in mp6. Strange indeed, i dont know what else to say. edit: maybe when they applied the hotfix, something went wrong and in oposite direction? Or is something related to wd only?
Edited by KopaKabana#2884 on 10/25/2012 1:17 PM PDT
You are not alone, and i am not going mad too.
It is also not tin foiled thinking. For those who truly tank, they could sense and see the difference. ( please don't make comment that this is not the "right" way to play. Everyone has their own preferred ways of playing the game ) I did made a comment on this issue recently, and got replies which didn't seem to answer the question. Damages had indeed gone up. It is not the affix. Arcane, as a stand alone is damaging more. Fire damages have seriously gone up and putting serious numbers. Ninja buff and nerf again? I suppose? It has happened before. |
And seriously, no, it has nothing to do with the affix you are facing.
For that is not the question here. It is NOT what kind of affix or the combination one is facing. The concern here is, damages have gone up. I could do mp3 with ease, and today, i died before i could even react, for the damage done to my monk is way unexpected. Same affix combination, same monsters, different day. Different speed of life draining down. Guess some of us, A )is having too much weeds, or B ) we seriously found a issue here.
Edited by Dutchmilk#6229 on 10/25/2012 2:28 PM PDT
Had a friend of mine call me this morning to complain about this and I thought he was just being stupid. Monk who's been farming MP7 comfortable since 1.0.5 was released. He had to drop it down to MP6 and is still dying quite a bit.
Thx for posting guys. The more people participate in this discussion the more likely blizz will realize that something did indeed change today.
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The plot thicken. |
i dont think anything went wrong in the opposite direction with the hotfix. do you mean to say that maybe too much dmg reduction was applied? cause no. it felt like exactly what they said they were doing. turing mp 7 into what mp 5 used to be monster damage wise is just about what it felt like to me. |
Just be prepared to endure a torrid time of flames from naysayers. Nothing, and i really mean NOTHING register in their mind about observations and discussions. To them, if they didn't come across it, it mean it did not exist. If they do come across it, it mean everyone else that say no, are wrong. On a personal level, I think Blizzard did a ninja buff again ( A community manager will firmly deny ( which they will ) or address the issue seriously by seriously feedback to the the top, with the top seriously look into the problem, or just be open and announce their intentions to the public. They are designers of the game, they have every rights to do any adjustments. However, it is a polite practice to inform your consumers about the changes as well. Any changes to the entertainments that the consumers are spending time and money to be engaged with are important to the consumers. Personally i would really like to know what changes are done to the enjoyment i am enjoying with. Otherwise how can i be enjoying? mmmmmmmmmm ) There is no issues with that, however, what about when they had already pulled our defense down, claiming that they had pulled down monster damages as well in the name of " balancing the game "? Tin foiled or not, all observations need to be feedback to make the game better. Unless the intention of improvements is never in mind.
Edited by Dutchmilk#6229 on 10/25/2012 2:31 PM PDT
Next week it's going to be Blizz nerfed the drops.
yep same here i felt like they rolled back the mp damage nerf
Yup noticed it immediately when touched by arcane beam. Yesterday to today is a big jump in damage.
something is amiss
usually me and two monks do ubers on MP7, so today we tried MP10 (supposedly same dmg as MP7 before), but Siegebreaker reflected more damage than he ought to. On MP7 those two monk healed nearly instantly after they got hit, today they complained they didn't leech as much as before - those green heal numbers didn't change, so it's damage-reflect beeing stronger. We never tried between dmg nerf and hotfix though on a personal note: arcane does way more dmg today than yesterday, but I could be wearing a tin foil hat, because thats not as nicely testable as dmg-reflect on a 500mil HP mob.
Edited by Buchsbaum#2465 on 10/25/2012 2:15 PM PDT
if they did something i just wish they would acknowledge it.
1. it was a mistake, in which case they dont realize it yet and they will say so and fix the problem. I have a hard time believing that slipped by them tho. 2. they did a "ninja nerf/buff" and if they havent acknowledged its existence yet, they most likely will not. that is unless they change their minds. so far there arent enough complaints about it by a long shot. so they may decide to keep things the way they are if in fact they did this intentionally. this could be an undeclared test to see what we actually notice without being told first. sorry to turn this into a tinfoil hat issue guys, but dutchmilk is making some sense. |
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Brewed a hopless rosemary ale a while back, and added some Jolly Pumpkin dregs to a gallon of it. Those JP dregs are vicious little bastards, and that gallon is now almost undrinkably sour. Still, I'm going through a rough financial patch, so I thought I might bottle it anyway, and make some sort of flavored sugar syrup to add, as if it was a Berliner weisse. Don't drink that much, and a gallon will keep me for a week or two. Question is, what flavor? I have some spare Tettnang, and some sweet gale, but I'm open to any good ideas anyone else might have. Beer's flavor is currently extremely sour with an aftertaste of rosemary. Anyone have any recommendations?
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I would blend it with another beer as spenghali said
Blending isn't a bad idea; it's just that all the beers I currently have available are either sours (a berliner weisse and a sour blonde with ECY Bugfarm) or aren't appropriate to use for blending with this sort of sour beer (a belgian APA and a stout with sour cherries which is already sour enough). Plus it's only a gallon.
If you have some time you can brew a beer specifically for blending. 1 gallon might be enough. I have this gallon jug that has been souring for over a year that I just tried to blend with. At a 5:1 clean:sour ratio, it was still overpowering the base beer. You won't know until you try. You can experiment with small volumes.


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In light of the big retirement announcement, the media has spent the day gushing over Karl Rove. But it's worth asking some tough questions. Besides the fact that he got an intellectual lightweight with no particular qualifications for the office elected to the presidency, what has Karl Rove done? That is, what will he be remembered for post-2000? Andrew Sullivan takes a crack:
The man's legacy is a conservative movement largely discredited and disunited, a president with lower consistent approval ratings than any in modern history, a generational shift to the Democrats, a resurgent al Qaeda, an endless catastrophe in Iraq, a long hard struggle in Afghanistan, a fiscal legacy that means bankrupting America within a decade, and the poisoning of American religion with politics and vice-versa.
Too much blame? One could argue that Rove always got too much credit, and this is simply the flip side of the coin. Regardless, there's no way to spin this man's legacy as a success. Sullivan's not done. "Rove is one of the worst political strategists in recent times," he writes. "He took a chance to realign the country and to unite it in a war — and threw it away in a binge of hate-filled niche campaigning, polarization and short-term expediency." Conservatism is not entrenched in the American identity, as Rove had intended. It is a dying breed in many parts of the country, and increasingly unpopular even in its former strongholds.
Dan Froomkin of the Post agrees, writing that Rove "leaves his party in worse shape than he found it, with his boss profoundly discredited in the eyes of the American people." Froomkin also writes that part of the blame for this failed administration will "accrue to Rove for choosing to use national security as a wedge issue."
And that's the key point. Rove, a campaigner, was handed the keys to the White House car in every instance. Remember when faith-based initiatives czar John DiIulio resigned in disgust and said, "What you've got is everything and I mean everything being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis"? When you actually govern with the exclusive aim of building partisan advantage, you are inevitably headed for disaster. The United States of America's priorities are not the same as the GOP's priorities, and while the goal of the presidency is to further the former, this administration was always interested in the latter. Throw in hubris, incompetency, and an obstinate unwillingness to hear outside views, and you've got one of the worst presidencies in the history of the Republic. Quite a genius, that Karl.
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[Rove] and Bush overlooked the epochal growth of economic insecurity in America. They refused to see that the very economic changes they celebrated had made Americans understandably nervous and pessimistic to an unprecedented extent about the nation's long-term economic prospects. And so, as employers were abandoning their provision of retirement benefits to employees, Bush and Rove called for abandoning the government's commitment as well. At a time when ordinary Americans' incomes were stagnating, and when growing numbers of Americans understood that they were in some nebulous competition with millions of lower-paid workers in other lands that the government seemed powerless to mitigate, Bush and Rove proposed legalizing the undocumented immigrants who had flowed across the border.
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Also, it is very important to note that Mandarin has been westernized a lot for the past several hundred years. It means Mandarin has been modernized by learning a lot from English.
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Complexity, as I see it, is just the difficulty in learning a language.
Harvard University reckons that Mandarin is one of the most difficult languages of the world, as its studentes should invest as many as 2.000 hours to master it. German, by contrast, would take just 700. One could guess that Spanish should take no more than 500 or 400 and in the case of English, you´re done with a couple of afternoons.
During my time as a student I taught English as a Second Language and thus became familiar with its intricacies, while at the same time studying English and learning how the amalgam of Old Norse with Old English had led to the dropping of word-endings in order to facilitate inter-culture communication and thus, eventually, leading to modern British English. When I moved to the USA I realized that English was undergoing yet another metamorphosis and reducing yet further its grammatical complexity.
The USA is a nation of immigrants from widely differing linguistic families. Rapid communication is essential. To this end, American English is like the computer chips of the 1990s: Reduced Instruction Set Chips (RISC). In American English there are three basic tenses: simple future, simple present, simple past. Thus, Americans say "I didn't do it yet" instead of "I haven't done it yet." American English lacks both adverbs ("John runs fast") and subjunctives. In some parts of the country there are almost only two verbs in frequent use ("I don't do pizza" and "We got enough cash now."). While this deprives American English of the subtlety and richness of British English, it is simple and quick to learn and enables a Ukrainian to converse with a Brazilian in Chicago just as easily as a Dane can talk to an Uzbek in New York. In time, American English will become the dominant form of the language - indeed, it is arguably just that right now. Later still, once everyone speaks some form of this RISC English, it will gradually become more rich, complex and expressive. Just wait a few hundred years.
Thank you for pointing out that the "complexity" in the original research means "morphological complexity". As a native speaker of another agglutinative language (Japanese), I see your point.
Incidentally, our two languages surely must be the largest sample of agglunitative languages in the world, and a living example that morphological complexity of a language does not hinder economic or cultural development of its speakers.
I can't lay hands on them, but somewhere I have a couple of books by an American academic, I think in California, who analyzed cognates to create a taxonomy of world languages and hypothesized a common African ancestor. One of those books included an appendix correlating genetic studies with his linguistic taxonomy.
@gao xia en,
I agree with you about the Taiwanese tones. And was surprised at your Chinese post!
The Mandarin here in Taiwan doesn't seem nearly as mellifluous as that spoken in some areas of mainland China, in my experience. In Taiwan, the tones are "flatter", and hence, more indistinct. But spoken Mandarin Chinese does have attractive and musical qualities.
Sorry about the indecent language. Just checking if anyone actually reads the posts in Chinese. But was it grammatical?
"simple" people with primitive technologies do not speak simple languages... this is true to certain extents...
I think it is the case to make a distinction between the different layers Linguistics implies: not only morphology but also semantics, syntax, phonetics each playing a different role in its own right that should prevent people from making any sort of generalisation.
It seems to me that the issue addressed in the article possesses a morphological nature...so watch out!
To the inferred question:' why widespread languages tend to become much simpler over time'
... have you ever considered the so called linguisitic ECONOMY?
Regards to the newspaper.
But it is true that morphologically speaking
Caroluss, at this point, the hypothesis that languages evolved from a common ancestor is impossible to prove and attempts to reconstruct this hypothetical common ancestor belong to the far fringes of linguistics. You are confusing the evolution of languages with the evolution of modern humans themselves, who do seem to have come from a common African ancestor.
There are multiple intertwined aspects to human language, and morphology is just a single one of those. Any language has to be complex enough to express human thought, so it should be intuitive that there are no great differences in the overall complexity of the different languages. Simplifying one aspect tends to be balanced by complicating other aspects, as many of you have suggested: simplifying the sounds creates homophones, for example.
So, to repeat myself once more, a language being morphologically complex has no bearings on the overall complexity of the language, and has still less to do with the notion of how difficult the language is to learn.
As for the 'beauty' of different languages... I know of several examples where people have claimed their own language (from Classical Greek to Russian, to my native Korean of course) to be the most beautiful in the world, to be capable of expressing thoughts beautifully like no other. Beauty is subjective, and it is obviously even more so when it comes to languages. For once I'd like to hear someone say that their own native language sounds harsh and grating to their own ears, or that it sounds like a throat disease, characterizations often heard when discussing languages other than their own.
In the cited paper, the definition of grammatical complexity is rather technical. It is simpler to compare English with German or Latin, modern romance languages with Latin, modern or even biblical Greek with classical Greek, all of which support the idea of evolution toward grammatical simplicity.
Chinese is grammatically simple in the sense that it depends on word order and idiom, like English (mostly), rather than on grammatical inflection.
I was surprised to find the most aggravating part of Mandarin was that, unaccustomed to a tonal language, I could not remember the tones without laborious memorization -- just like gender in French or German. So no net gain from the marvelously simple grammar.
interesting how the author uses spanish as an example of a complex and I understand "small" language to make a point.
A lot of us who have bothered to learn a lot about the many long years of Chinese history, philosophy, etc., decided it wasn't really worth the trouble. Honestly, just learning a very little amount is enough for the vast majority of "Westerners". THAT'S sad.
@Sam Song,
As a resident and someone who learned Mandarin, I've often heard native-Mandarin speakers remark that Mandarin is a beautiful sounding language, as much so as French(!), and that many people think so. I've yet to hear a non-Mandarin speaker, or even someone learning Mandarin, remark that it sounds beautiful, or even a little nice.
Is that grammatical?
How much of the apparent simplicity of Spanish (for English speakers) is due to the ease of pronunciation and the phonetic spelling, rather than the grammar?
I speak English, Spanish and Chinese. I've also read the Economist article in the Christmas edition about all of the little languages in the world that have extremely strange inflection (e.g. there's a different verb ending if you say you know something because you saw it or because someone told you), so I think the article is pretty accurate. I think people are thinking that German and Russian are complex, but these are a walk in the park compared to these little languages that few people speak.
Mandarin is simple. Sure it has 4 tones, but once you figure them out and get a few grammar structures you can say a lot. The only reason it's harder than Spanish is because Spanish is similar to English. All the homophones in Mandarin are more evidence of its "simplicity", not less.
The author's theory seems plausible. It seems hard to imagine one of these highly complex languages becoming widely spoken with the grammar intact.
The findings seem consistent with the theory that languages evolved from a common African ancestor, differentiating in closed communities, but becoming grammatically simpler where faced with the requirements of trade or empire.
Written Chinese has no means of expressing inflection. Although most linguists seem to think Chinese was originally uninflected, thousands of years of use by the educated classes of an uninflected written language must have had some effect.
A gem of an article; coherent, succinct and cogent. Let us never overlook the isolation of the Amazon from English, nor must we word order reliance thereon. A fact, indeed.
French, born in Québec among the Anglo-Normans, has in its spread from La Rochelle to the Rhine, eliminated pesky accents from its vowels, when capital. Credit is due the Académie, still heroically wrestling with supplying words for 70, 80, and 90.
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Prophets. Rapture. Tribulation. Judgment. End times. Learn what the Bible has to say about prophecy, how Christians differ in their views of the end times, and what the universal aspects are on which all Christians agree. The Max Anders What You Need to Know About series is made up of ten 12-lesson study guides covering the fundamentals of Christianity. The ten books in the series together form a Basic Knowledge program for seekers, new believers, and veteran believers who want a stronger foundation in the Christian faith.
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AngellOhioAge: 25-34Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Wonderful Bible Study!!January 13, 2013AngellOhioAge: 25-34Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5"What You Need to Know About Bible Prophecy: 12 Lessons That Can Change Your Life," by Max Anders is a pretty neat book. It's a book about the end times, which seems to be all the rage now. It's broken up into 12 Chapters...or "lessons" and is a great Bible Study! The chapters aren't too long, which I LOVE!, so you can really do a lesson a day if you'd like. Each chapter has a bunch of questions at the end. They begin the study with a "Speed Bump" section. That basically stops and makes sure you understand what you just read about. Then there is a "Fill in the Blank" section, followed by a "for further thought and discussion" section. But that's not it...it then has an interesting section called "what if I don't believe?" And lastly there is a section called "for Further Study" and it lists scriptures and other books you can read to get more information.
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