The Internet does accelerate the death of languages. Isolation created divergence, instant participatory communication will erase those differences. There is si

The Internet does accelerate the death of languages. Isolation created divergence, instant participatory communication will erase those differences. There is simply too much overhead to continue translating new terms (e.g. smartphone) which build on other English connotations. I wonder how the Académie_française does its job. Movies and TV did this too, but being broadcast media, they could - with state support - throw a fig leaf for "regional" languages.