So what you’re actually doing is creating a system that can easily represent some sort of relations, at the cost of making it more difficult to represent others.
I’m not making it more difficult to represent others. I don’t lose anything that English can do.
You can’t add extra features to the language without increasing the cognitive load in deciding when to use the extra features. You’re still making everything else more difficult, it’s just a distributed difficulty where everything is made more difficult by a miniscule amount, rather than one particular thing made difficult by a large amount.
I don’t think that sentence would get added complexity.
“adopted child” will likely be a 7-8 letter word using the same root as stepfather.
Stepfather is a word that you can’t derive from knowing “adoption” which make things harder for the language speaker. You can’t derive spouse from knowing the word marriage.
I’m not making it more difficult to represent others. I don’t lose anything that English can do.
You can’t add extra features to the language without increasing the cognitive load in deciding when to use the extra features. You’re still making everything else more difficult, it’s just a distributed difficulty where everything is made more difficult by a miniscule amount, rather than one particular thing made difficult by a large amount.
I don’t think that sentence would get added complexity. “adopted child” will likely be a 7-8 letter word using the same root as stepfather. Stepfather is a word that you can’t derive from knowing “adoption” which make things harder for the language speaker. You can’t derive spouse from knowing the word marriage.