[geeks] Vocabulary and grammar

[Micah R Ledbetter]

der Mouse wrote:
>>> Big words - complex sentence structure.
>> About complex sentence structure, I have two things to say.  [...]
> 
> In English grammar, "complex" as applied to sentences is a technical
> term, referring to a specific type of construction ("a sentence
> containing one or more dependent clauses in addition to the main
> clause" - quoted from dictionary.com).

Ah, I see... I didn't realize that (I use a different word for the same 
idea).

> Whether that is what the person who wrote "complex sentence structure"
> meant is not clear to me, but it seems plausible, at least, and if it
> is, talking about complexity in the everyday sense of the word is more
> or less irrelevant to it.

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