Starblazer
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Made even more possible by the flexibility of the alphabets at the elemental level.
Nowhere did I said categorically that the Hawaiian language cannot be adapted. But there are serious limitations on how far before there are so many adapations that the language itself become unrecognizable.
The Hawaiian language is not a 'phonotactical' language, meaning consonent clusters like 'ch' or 'rh' or 'th' or the more complex 'chr' simply do not exist and they do not exist because they ARE NOT PERMISSIBLE. That is the great difference between languages: Permissibility. And this limitation is learned very early into the classes. In this situation, an adaptation is not possible but will require a whole new word. Same limitation for ideogrammatic languages like Chinese and Japanese.
As far as economic incentive goes, you are treading into human behaviors. If something is inherently limited in so many ways, especially when we are talking about science and technology, people will gravitate towards the things that are inherently more flexible.
Small mind. English does not have some of the sounds in Slavic languages, there are sounds in Vietnamese so unique you'd think aliens were making them, so therefore because English does not have those sounds it can never be adaptable, your arguments run thin. People will simply replace the sounds they don't have with another unless they are running on a rat brain, but of course with more sounds come more possible combinations. Of the languages that exist today there are enough sounds already in each one of them to create combinations impossible to exhaust, the difference is the richness of vocabulary which come from the knowledge within the culture.
People gravitate towards what they perceive as necessary or useful to them. If Russia won the cold war we'd be speaking Russian, if Japan won WW2 your grandma would be speaking Japanese regardless of how difficult it is. There was a time in Europe where French was the most prominent language and German was the language of science, why did English overtake them? It was the language of commerce, if you wanted to do business you'd better learn it, it's simple human behavior, but i don't think robots understand.