The incuriousness in this thread is atypical of the board in my opinion. At one point I used to think that language diversity was actually a net bad thing for

The incuriousness in this thread is atypical of the board in my opinion. At one point I used to think that language diversity was actually a net bad thing for humanity, because it decreases our ability to communicate and so on. These days language technology and machine translation are solving that communication issue and we may choose to preserve dying languages for the sake of understanding how language itself works, how humans migrated in the past, and so on.