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Culture, history, the impossible task of getting billions of people to agree on a standard.
by Loocid 4y ago
Culture, history, the impossible task of getting billions of people to agree on a standard.
- evolve2k 4y agoYes! Also innovation. There are many instances of certain languages recognising a concept for which there is no direct translation in other languages. The spread of concepts across languages has provided meaningful benefit over thousands of years. People who are multi-lingual also speak of how after immersing in one language or another they start to dream and think in a new language and this adjusts their thought patterns. The affect of our dominate language on us is not neutral and different languages bring different benefits and framing.