The article chooses to take a metric that you usually do not see much: GDP per employee and per hours worked, at purchasing power standards

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    Definitely, it’s nice! I feel like there could be some similar initiatives across family languages

    • Interlingua for Romance languages
    • another one for Germanic languages
    • another one for Slavic languages

    That would reduce the language burden at a European level, and still kind of preserve the local culture and language? Seems more balanced than having English as the one lingua franca

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      6 months ago

      I agree, it would be great! Also definitely more efficient than the 24 official languages we currently have, lol.

      I guess Hungarians and Finns wouldn’t be too pleased by this division though. Hehe.

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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        6 months ago

        Well, they can make their own common language if they want, that would still reduce the number of Finno-Urgic languages by 50% ha ha (not sure about the language group name, my memory is blurry)

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          Hungarian and Finnish are far enough, the Finno-Ugric group is as diverse as the Indoeuropean one, it was just mostly wiped out in the Great Migrations.

          Hungarian is actually Ugric IIRC, and it is as close to Finnish as English is to Russian. The grammar is similar in some ways, but I don’t think there is substantial shared similar vocabulary.