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Preserving something important to the culture is not identical with ensuring the language freezes and can never change further. And if you don't think the old
by ubernostrum 8y ago
Preserving something important to the culture is not identical with ensuring the language freezes and can never change further.
And if you don't think the old oral epics have value -- you seem not to -- then I don't know that it's really worth discussing them with you.
- danieltillett 8y agoIt is not that I don’t think oral story don’t have value (they are entertaining), I just don’t think they contain any facts after a few generation. Myths are fiction.
- ubernostrum 8y agoOral cultures did manage to preserve plenty of facts. Their epics just weren't intended for that purpose. You might as well criticize modern literate America for the vast quantities of fact-free written material being churned out.