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RE: Should we rescue endangered languages?
August 14, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(August 9, 2014 at 3:36 pm)rasetsu Wrote:
I recently listened to a webcast about how Alaska has made some of its native languages official state languages, in an effort to promote efforts to conserve languages that are in danger of becoming extinct.
Is there a point to spending money to save a language from becoming extinct?
I think that ultimately, the only thing we can do to 'save' them is record them for posterity well enough that someone who really wants to can still learn it. Maybe in a Rosetta Stone teaching program.
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RE: Should we rescue endangered languages?
September 5, 2014 at 5:06 am
On the one hand, yes, because English is very limited and it causes a lot of problems...
In other hand, no, because language is meant for communication and purposefully adding more just makes it harder to communicate.
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RE: Should we rescue endangered languages?
September 6, 2014 at 6:16 am
Mark Twain once observed that a person of good intelligence who applied himself could learn to speak passable English in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
He went on to say that if people wish to become fluent in German, it should be declared a dead language, as only the dead have time to learn it.
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