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The Internet Is Killing Most Languages
- lmm 13y agoGood. A language is a tool for communication; if more of the world's people are able to communicate with each other, I think that's much more valuable than preserving linguistic diversity.
- caio1982 13y agoKinda not good. It's not simply a tool for communication. It's a way to express complex thoughts, and the more diversity you have here the better as both language and thought constrain (and support!) each other in a way we still do not fully understand. I do not really care when I read a language is dying because I believe in natural selection and although it's incredibly sad and a "real problem" there's not much we can do besides trying to document them as much/fast as possible and that's it (provided we don't discriminate minority speaking groups, of course). It has nothing to do with being "more valueable".
- filipedeschamps 13y agoGood article. But I thought before clicking on it that it was going to say things like "javascript is killing all other languages because of the internet" :)