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Well chances are you weren't getting any perspectives from a Bo speaker anyway. Societies spend considerably more energy teaching the current lingua franca than
by Herring 17y ago
Well chances are you weren't getting any perspectives from a Bo speaker anyway. Societies spend considerably more energy teaching the current lingua franca than in preserving dying languages, which leads me to think the value of a language is largely in communication. Besides, there's a lot of variation among just english speakers.. the ease of communication sort of disguises that.
- msg 17y agoI would not look to what societies spend energy on as a definition of value. There's a wisdom of crowds, but there's a folly of crowds too. If your perspective focuses on English, then yes, you can notice lots of e.g. sociolinguistic and geographical diversity. But what do you see when you look beyond it? You can ask a similar question about American cultural hegemony, or the Internet. What kinds of expression do you lose or diminish by co-opting millions of viewers into the Hollywood frame of mind? Or the Facebook news feed?