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throw83849494··on Talk like caveman
Well, just take varous english dialects you probably know, there are wast differences. Some strange languages do not even have numbers or recursion.

It is very arrogant to assume, no other language can be more advanced than English.

throw83849494··on Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick
You obviously do not speak other languages. Other cultures have different constrains and different grammar.

For example thinking in modern US English generates many thoughts, to keep correct speak at right cultural context (there is only one correct way to say People Of Color, and it changes every year, any typo makes it horribly wrong).

Some languages are far more expressive and specialized in logical conditions, conditionals, recursion and reasoning. Like eskimos have 100 words for snow, but for boolean algebra.

It is well proven that thinking in Chinese needs far less tokens!

With this caveman mod you strip out most of cultural complexities of anglosphere, make it easier for foreigners and far simpler to digest.