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Even just the specific knowledge of building a house is probably a generation removed from most people these days. It scares me to think of just how fragile we
by shakezula 6y ago
Even just the specific knowledge of building a house is probably a generation removed from most people these days. It scares me to think of just how fragile we really are.
- hnuser123456 6y agoSure, but what is forgotten makes room for novel ideas which are hopefully sometimes improvements. Plus, now we have computers to write and share this knowledge so it doesn't always have to be memorized.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 6y ago> which are hopefully sometimes improvements The death of Latin is very upsetting.
- rajansaini 6y agoWhy is that out of curiosity?
- pmlnr 6y agoIt was the common language of the time.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 6y agoReading the English for Catullus 16 (pretty dirty) and feeling jealous that they could put it so succinctly in their own language. Also this TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shape....
- qiqing 6y agoTechnically, there are more Latin speakers alive today than cumulatively during the Roman Empire. However, I think negligibly few are _native_ speakers. Exponential population growth is weird.
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/1513/ https://xkcd.com/1513/
- shakezula 6y agoThis is absolutely perfect and is exactly the type of knowledge that I'm so afraid we'll lose with even one generation of major civil disruption.