語言之間很難比較優劣的。較有實貭意義的是評估一種語言本身是否"成熟"。

Accuracy in delivering meaning isn't the only measure as long as the accuracy is acceptable.

Though English can be clumsy with accuracy at times, I do think English is a little better in this respect in general while Chinese is good enough. Still, this is only a very general statement. A friend of mine with English as his main language and poorly trained in Chinese comments that Chinese is a better language in conveying Buddhist ideas. He thinks English is unnecessarily clumsy for this purpose. So he reads Buddhist texts in Chinese instead.

As well, a language maps reality from a variety of approaches. One is better off with some approaches and less so with some others. The so called"scientific" quality of a language only implements one of those approaches.

In conclusion, all we need is a mature language. 

Both Chinese and English are mature languages.

 

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• 語言是工具，也需要掌握工具的技巧。很多時候是技巧沒掌握好，所以出現很對歧義句子。 -為人父- ♂ (177 bytes) () 01/28/2023 postreply 17:58:32