Poll: The last spealer of a language has died.
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Language is an ever-changing, fluent thing. Many different languages have come and gone like Sanskrit and Latin and even the current languages change massively over large periods of time. How many of you can understand every passage of Shakespeare? It's the same language that we are speaking here but I'll be the first to admit that I have no idea what The Bard wrote down most of the time. Hell, I wonder if an English-speaker of 20 years ago would understand some of the crap that goes down on Facebook, Twitter, and chatrooms today.
The point of my rambling is this: Language changes. New ones come, old ones go, and there is little you can do to stop it. We can choose to save the "dead" languages but for what purpose in the long run? There will never again be a need to speak this language.
To wrap up: despite my ramblings I do believe that we should, as oppp7 said before me, "archive" the dead languages but I see no real purpose in doing so other than preserving the last little bit of a culture that's dead and gone.
I apologize for not being more organized with my thoughts; I'm a little out of it today.
The point of my rambling is this: Language changes. New ones come, old ones go, and there is little you can do to stop it. We can choose to save the "dead" languages but for what purpose in the long run? There will never again be a need to speak this language.
To wrap up: despite my ramblings I do believe that we should, as oppp7 said before me, "archive" the dead languages but I see no real purpose in doing so other than preserving the last little bit of a culture that's dead and gone.
I apologize for not being more organized with my thoughts; I'm a little out of it today.
it's part of us, and we don't want us to die. a language let's us learn about each other more. on an unrelated note, I have been watching a lot of history Chanel as of late.
I really don't think it's a big issue. If only one person new it until now, then there was no point learning it. It would be alot easier if the world just had one language that we all used.
I voted No.
The only way I could see to keep it alive would be forcing people to learn/use/speak the language. Who has the right to force that on people?
The only way I could see to keep it alive would be forcing people to learn/use/speak the language. Who has the right to force that on people?
Unless the Bo had a great legacy of written articles and findings we're not really losing much by letting it die. Though being as only one person spoke it previously, I wouldn't doubt that they had no written language anyway.
I fail to see how losing a language would be a bad thing in any case, assuming important documentation had all been translated and the culture was left intact. If everyone spoke the same language it would save the world a whole lot of effort.
I fail to see how losing a language would be a bad thing in any case, assuming important documentation had all been translated and the culture was left intact. If everyone spoke the same language it would save the world a whole lot of effort.
