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Interesting take on the death of languages & the inevitable rise & dominance of English: http://tiny.cc/dNR4X (via @paulsaxton) 21 days ago |
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Lunch read for the day: Why Languages Vanish. http://tinyurl.com/yl59jqj (via @vboykis) 22 days ago |
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Counterpoint: One linguist questions whether allowing languages to die is a bad thing. http://bit.ly/bpieT 24 days ago |
OMNIVORE: Start paying attention
bookforum.com —
... From World Affairs , John McWhorter on the cosmopolitan tongue and the universality of English. From Popular Mechanics , 3 mysterious builds: A look at ...
The Word: Drying Up
The Wooden Spoon —
... , discussing the recent article by John McWhorter on the predominance of English and the extinction of languages. McWhorter writes, 'According to one estimate, a hundred years from now the 6,000 languages in use today will likely dwindle to 600. The question, though, is whether this is a problem.' ...
Halloween links: Superfreakonomics, Evolutionary Psychology/Biology, The Books of Brin, and more
The Story's Story —
... like approximately half the U.S. population, and thought it intriguing mostly in the first chapter, which is really about the changing social mores around women.
* A Brief History of Sex Ed in America.
* Kahlo, Trotsky and Kingsolver: The writer [Kingsolver] on dust, dirt, rain and her new novel set in 1930s Mexico. I’ve never gotten into Kingsolver’s fiction, but I like this interview.
* Dismantling the Calculus pyramid.
* The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English.
* Why do we rape, kill, and ...
Ultimate dialogue ...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue —
... The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English. ...
Lost languages
George Szirtes —
The following excerpt from this article by John McWhorter, via the always fascinating A & L At the end of the day, language death is, ironically, a symptom of people coming together. Globalization means hitherto isolated peoples migrating and sharing space. For them to do so and still maintain distinct languages across generations happens only amidst unusually tenacious self-isolation—such as that of the Amish—or brutal segregation.... ...The alternative, it would seem, is indigenous groups left to live in ...
Blog of a Bookslut — ... Linguistic death is proceeding more rapidly even than species attrition. According to one estimate, a hundred years from now the 6,000 languages in use today will likely dwindle to 600. The question, though, is whether this is a problem. ...
Bumper Bambi
Scrivener's Error —
Language learning, language diversity, and the difficult determination of whether the Tower of Babel is a good thing . Walter Laqueur argues that ...
Silliman's Blog — ... Wright: “Concerning Why Poetry Offers A Better Deal Than The World's Biggest Retailer” § Why Brian Fawcett quit writing poetry § Arnie’s acrostic § Why save dying languages? The “universality” of English § Why save ...
One Tongue?
The Rumpus.net —
... article “The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English,” he asks if it would be “inherently evil if there were not 6,000 languages spoken but one?” ...
