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Is preserving languages a good thing?
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RE: Is preserving languages a good thing?
I think it is important to preserve languages even if there are evolution over time because language or a dialect of a language is tied to a culture.
I think it is important to preserve cultural diversity and preserve languages alongside its dialects and sub-dialects is a way to do so.

Each languages have dialects and sub-dialects.
For example among the dozen of English dialects there are British English and American English.
Among the dozen of sub-dialects of British English there are Received Pronunciation , Cockney and Mancunian.
Among the dozen of sub-dialects of American English there are General American , Inland Northern English and Western American English.

We lose time when we translate something in another language but languages are tied to ours cultures of humanity and work in any language contain reflect of a particular culture and this reflect is lose if done in another language and this is why it is important to keep work in original language.
If we suppress a language we eliminate a culture.
Learn a foreign language = Learn another culture that our and learn there are others ways to think.

Communicate with another person can be difficult if he / she doesn't know your language and you don't know his / her language.
You can have a language in common like English but you would have difficulty to communicate if this is not the mother tongue of this person or your because language are tied to a culture. Therefore you would do mistakes while communicating.
It does exist artificial languages to facilitate intercultural communications like Esperanto , Ido , IALA etc...
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Is preserving languages a good thing? - by FlatAssembler - January 2, 2020 at 1:16 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Brian37 - January 2, 2020 at 1:55 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Brian37 - January 2, 2020 at 4:22 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by no one - January 2, 2020 at 5:11 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Brian37 - January 2, 2020 at 5:36 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by paulpablo - January 5, 2020 at 6:42 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Mr Greene - January 5, 2020 at 8:29 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Secular Elf - November 4, 2020 at 7:23 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Mr Greene - January 3, 2020 at 9:35 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by FlatAssembler - January 28, 2020 at 12:03 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by onlinebiker - January 4, 2020 at 11:34 am
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by LastPoet - January 5, 2020 at 12:12 am
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Mr Greene - January 5, 2020 at 2:31 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by viocjit - January 8, 2020 at 9:08 am
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by FlatAssembler - October 29, 2020 at 1:04 am
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Rank Stranger - October 29, 2020 at 5:12 pm
RE: Is preserving languages a good thing? - by Sal - October 29, 2020 at 5:24 pm

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