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The difference is that before languages were newly created too, due to separation. Now, languages just die.
by baxtr 8y ago
The difference is that before languages were newly created too, due to separation. Now, languages just die.
- jmulho 8y agoRight, for now, but what about the future? The ingredients for diversity of language and culture are isolation and time. If you send some friends to the other side of a river, or a mountain, or a wall, or an ocean, or to a different planet, and then stop communicating much for a long time, languages will be newly created again. The question is not if, but when and why will this kind of isolation happen again.