RE: Is preserving languages a good thing?
January 5, 2020 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2020 at 6:44 pm by paulpablo.)
(January 2, 2020 at 5:11 pm)no one Wrote: Extinction, in all of its forms, is immune to any human endeavor. Language is an evolving entity. The English spoken in America today, is not quite the same language as it was 50 years ago, nor is that version the same as it was 50 years prior to that. The more humans intermingle, the more cultures fuse, the more homogenized communication between them becomes. More than likely, there isn't anyone alive today who will live long enough to witness the Spanglishization of all human communication, but that day may be on the horizon.
I don't think the main topic is about any of this.
I think the topic is more about languages that are spoken by just a tiny amount of people and there's big efforts to preserve them even though in a lot of cases the people speaking the language usually know a more mainstream language aswell and there's little reward or use in their being the other language.
I think an example could be the Welsh language, I could be wrong my memory and knowledge on this is pretty vague but I don't think many people exist who know Welsh who don't also know English very fluently. And there was some debate about the government spending money on keeping the language going and teaching it even though a lot of people didn't care about it.
I've been to Wales a lot and I don't think I've ever heard anyone speaking Welsh while I was there. In north Wales it's more common for them to sound scouse, like people from Liverpool.
(January 4, 2020 at 3:36 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: In the UK in wales they have to extremes to save the welsh language. Pointlessly really. everyone in Wales speaks English and Welsh is a cumbersome language that has just meant extra large road signs in English and welsh.
Time to get rid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvlQXPNwrqo
I just read this after I made my post, yeh this is the kind of thing I thought the main topic was about.
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Impersonation is treason.
