Mandarin Chinese: the good parts
By Carl Mäsak (masak)
Date: Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:30
Duration: 40 minutes
Language: English
Tags: languages linguistics perl6 蝶
People who study Chinese encounter a fairly different approach to grammar, compared to (say) Indo-European languages. For those of us who like spoken languages, it's a refreshing new perspective.
But it's even more interesting for a programmer to look at some of the structures. Some parts of it feel decidedly... functional, or declarative. At the very least, Chinese tends to get rid of a lot of worthless cruft that plagues the Indo-European languages.
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