[geeks] Vocabulary and grammar

[Brian Dunbar]

Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> der Mouse wrote:
> 
>> 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

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?

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