English Defies Human Logic : The Worst Language Humans Ever Created
I just realized after so many years have passed that English is the worst language that humans ever created in term of logical thought. The reason is in the question sentence sturcture of an English language. Here is an example:
Q : Are you not tired?
This question in terms of a machine language is more like conditional statement in a flowchart. Its meaning is that the questioner wants to ratify if the target is "not tired?". If the target is tired, then it will notify the questioner as false, otherwise it will respond a true.
However, English defies this logic thought for some reasons. In English, the question "not tired?" is answered reversely. If the target feels tired, he will respond "Yes, I’m tired", which in the same sense he’s trying to say "True, the statement you mentioned was false". This contradicts the answer he utters. Vice versa, if the target feels not tired, he will naturally respond "No, I’m not tired" which also contradicts his answer; "False, the statment you mentioned was true".
I have no idea why English has this illogical rule coming along. However, without disrespecting English, I speculate that English was created for simple-minded people. Illogically, unlike Bahasa Indonesia and Japanese which is more sensible in logical thought, English is the most popular language that humans ever communicate with each other. Ironic, isn’t it?
