[thedatamonger]

One good link deserves another. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there... The point I was trying to make is the same. Some languages are more descriptive about a given domain in a shorter space and thus can convey an idea in vastly less time than another language. Now you could do some hand waiving and say we use prefixes and suffixes all the time and you could make up words till the end of time but the important fact here is that people speaking a given language actually USE those words, because of their need to be descriptive within a given domain, and WITHIN that domain I'd say they are smarter by my definition of smart. More articulate, more succinct, more versed (within a given domain), and more experienced. Every profession has it's own language, and rightly so, because time is precious and we need to convey meaning quickly. Words created and collected for a given purpose are still words, just look at a medical dictionary.