re: #367 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My English students in Germany go nuts over the way that English has several words for the same thing: a Punkt in German can be a period, dot or point depending on how it is used, while we have other words that have several unrelated meanings, like “fine”.

German, for all its clunkiness and grammar rules and endings, is a highly logical language without a lot of overlapping or multiple meanings compared to English.

I strongly disagree about German, it’s as much of a mess as English or Russian.

That’s not the Punkt though. It’s not about why language as such originally has different words for what more logically could be named with one term. Rather it’s why there hasn’t been more unification considering the scientific aspect of it: for science it shouldn’t matter where the cyclone takes place, all of those things can be named with one word. And science usually uses its own language. Yet science seems to pay respect to tradition in this case. Albeit above it has been indicated that this may be changing.