Why Aren’t Our Languages Simpler?

Languages are surprisingly hard-to-learn and stunningly irrational, so why have we never altered them for the better?

Calum Johnson
Swap Language
Published in
7 min readOct 23, 2020

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Simplicity is something of a modern-day zeitgeist.

The need to simplify our daily tasks and processes has absorbed the attentions of inventors over the past few decades. Household…

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Calum Johnson
Swap Language

A UK-based journalist, translator, and writer with a passion for history, languages, and sport.