tnr.com - 26 days ago
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You never know which ones of your pieces are going to get around. Last week World Affairs published an essay I wrote exploring whether it would necessarily be such a horrible thing if only one language were spoken in the world.
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When Languages Die, They Stay Dead
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
John McWhorter defends his recent article on whether dying languages should be saved and spoken: I write that within a context: of the 6000 languages on earth, it is
estimated that only about 600 will exist a hundred years from now. The
big languages are edging the tiny ones, and even the medium-sized ones,
out. In recent centuries, this has been first because of active
extermination – Native Americans were often forbidden to speak their
home languages in school – and later because of “globalization”:
children raised in a city by migrant parents ...
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