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Originally Posted by melliedee
I don't think it's about sentimentality, but advotating for the necessary scholarship it takes to record a language otherwise lost. It is a high price to pay for globalization, imo. Linguistically isolated languages are a rare thing; I'm glad there are still people who care about them.
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I hear ya. And I respect the desire to preserve them from a 'preserving history' sense. And certainly making note of the demise of one is important.
I guess it just seems hugely impractical to go to any great lengths to preserve them, really, when if we keep on at this rate, they'll be dead anyway.
Maybe the more we all speak the same language or at least fewer, maybe we will all understand each other better?
and I am not saying this because I speak English and it's gonna be English either, although it IS the universal language of business right now...eventually we'll all be speaking Chinese.
Or Arabic maybe!
