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[scottobear]

The "Sunshine State" indeed... how about the "rumbling gray-skied rain that makes Scotto want to nap state"?

from pserv -

The linguistic equivalent of an ecological disaster is looming, say researchers, who warn that 90 per cent of the world's languages are likely to disappear by 2050.

*waves bye bye to British Romani, Tofi.... I hope good records are maintained, anyhow. Sort of reminds me of yesterday's thoughts on how we look.

Just to play the devil's advocate... is this such a bad thing, really? Is common ground for thought an acceptable substitute for diversity? Sort of like preserving an endangered species...the heart might be in the right place, but perhaps there's a reason for it to be dying out, too... Making way for the bigger, stronger, or more adaptable things. Besides, we have people creating new languages, too... Not that I really want to hang with the folks who speak Elvish or Klingon, but Esperanto is a noble-enough calling. How's that old gag go? "People who speak three or more languages are multilingual, two languages are bilingual, and one language are American.

Wouldn't one common, unifying tongue be more beneficial, overall?

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loving whales and talking to rocks

[fantasticprizes.livejournal.com]

one point- i think - like the loss of ecological diversity the loss of cultural diversity is the loss of what we dont know (in terms of history, environmental knowledge, evolutionary or genetic intelligence , drugs). sure i agree their are limits to what we can save or record before it is lost, and sure the history of the earth is loss of these things. but what disturbs me is the pace of loss and especially for WHAT? my disappointment is that we seem not to value all this stuff and we are not prepared to make concious decisions as a planet about this stuff. it is just being lost in some madcap rush of globalisation that doesnt appear to benefit us culturally or ecologically. and these two facets have always been the foundations of strong and/or sustainable societies. i think humanities egos and greed are starting to override its intelligence? to me that is our rich heritage. it is like wisdom it cant be bought, produced, learnt, properly recorded. we can spend trillions on trying to build better stuff to kill each other but there seems little regard for just stopping and reevaluating everything? all these things ecologies , langugaes, ancestors , landscapes have formed who we are over a time period that is truly fantastic. to deny that i suggest is some denial of ourselves and makes us shallow?
what do you reckon mr devil ? :)

Re: loving whales and talking to rocks

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I like old school. Peace is good.

;)

Re: loving whales and talking to rocks

[fantasticprizes.livejournal.com]

yeah heres wishing the world seems like an 80s shootem up swarzenigger movie. hopefully it will be fashionably recycled