[ExI] language lust

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Aug 26, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Someone mentioned language learning, triggering this thought that was recently on my mind:
> 
> Suppose technology exists to make you quickly fluent in a language of your choice.  (For even more counterfactual fun, the menu may include long-dead languages, provided that they were spoken by more than a Dunbar number.)  You do not know how many languages your brain, even if enhanced, can hold; the limit varies from person to person.  So you choose them one by one until you hit the limit.
> 
> What are your first dozen choices?  You may specify indirectly, like "the language understood by the greatest number of people in the New World in 1491".

Spanish
Mandarin
Japanese
Korean
Russian
French 
Hindi/Urdu
Farsi
Classical Latin
Attic Greek
Sanskrit
Classical Arabic

Regards,

Dan
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