Another Short History of Linguistics (77)

After the Greece was trying to use mathematics replacing the nature language, easy to understand that idea would stimulate the nature language to think the opposition forces. Their method was to declare that there were some certain logic in nature language that could not be replaced by math and it was called grammar.  But today, it is proved as superstitious. The language expressing is like the expressing of picture. How can some rules limit you to draw a picture? Besides the grammar was emerged from a time of small-quantity-information. It have no reason apply to a time of large-quantity-information.

Last time I have said the Shakespeare’s time English only had 20-30 thousand words. If we check the Bible we may found:

http://www.diffen.com/difference/New_Testament_vs_Old_Testament

The New Testament contains a vocabulary of 4,800 words. And The Old Testament contains a vocabulary of 5,800 words. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet

The Phoenician invent alphabet 1,200 years ahead Bible, how many words they could have? The invention of alphabet language was focus on a simple society for that quantity of words, the inventor have no idea about a vocabulary of few million words.