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> I question the need to preserve a language if it inhibits the positive spread of information. I think that language diversity is bad for the communication of
by fao_ 11y ago
> I question the need to preserve a language if it inhibits the positive spread of information.
I think that language diversity is bad for the communication of information, but language preservation is good because there are words in other languages that are difficult to articulate in English. If you still have a few people that speak their native language (Even as a second language), then those exact concepts are preserved.
- wnoise 11y ago> there are words in other languages that are difficult to articulate in English. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.
- mikeash 11y ago"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> If you still have a few people that speak their native language (Even as a second language), then those exact concepts are preserved. Huh? No they're not. All languages change; concepts will be preserved exactly as long as people want them.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoConsider that Latin distinguished between equus [horse] and caballus [horse of low quality, old nag]. A Roman soldier who fought mounted on a horse was an eques. Latin never died out -- it is still with us today! But the Spanish word for a knight is caballero, a person who rides... what?
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoThe congenital deaf do think differently which is why there is opposition to cochlear implants in their community. Even if taught to sign, children with implants develop abstract thought akin to the hearing.