Google ‘To Save Endangered Languages’
21st June 2012
Missing, of course, is any answer to the question ‘Why?’
People seem to think that it’s enough to say ‘Oh noes! X is endangered!’ to trigger a panic reaction on the part of all within earshot. Unless there is something uniquely useful about these languages (and I suggest that any who were uniquely useful wouldn’t be endangered) then I don’t see the point.
Languages are like Household Stuff. Just because it was useful once doesn’t mean it’s worth keeping forever. Sometimes you just have to Take Out The Trash.
If I were a Google shareholder I’d be thinking of some pointed questions to be asking at the next shareholder meeting.
June 21st, 2012 at 19:45
“Just because it was useful once doesn’t mean it’s worth keeping forever.”
A truth conservatives should take to heart but, sadly, never will.