I made a similar comment here on HN, but in a different post, in response to someone arguing that there should be fewer spoken languages and that the death of a

I made a similar comment here on HN, but in a different post, in response to someone arguing that there should be fewer spoken languages and that the death of a language was “a good thing”. A language is more than a means of communication. It’s a culture. It’s a world. It was a disappointing lesson in how reductive people can be.