[geeks] Vocabulary and grammar

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 19:03, Brian Dunbar wrote:

> Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
 >
>> Well, OK, but what I was trying to communicate - that it is a poor
>> measure of education, intelligence, language usability, etc - still
>> stands. The number of dependent clauses is not a good metric for  
>> this.
>> In fact, there is no way to compare one dialect to another common and
>> determine which one is better or smarter (or ...), because there  
>> is no
>> such thing as a "better" language or dialect.
>>
>>   - Micah
>
> I understand that comparing grade level material separated by a  
> century
> is a poor way to compare education, intelligence and so on.
>
> Is there a better one?

*Linguistically*, no. Everything else mentioned in this thread -  
those seem like a pretty good way to measure those things to me :).

  - Micah