NEWS: Half Of World's Languages Disappear Within The Century

CULTURE: Half Of World's Languages Disappear Within The Century

The UN is estimating that up to one half of the world's languages will be gone in the next hundred years.

While I mourn for the loss of culture and history, I can't help but feel a sense of gladness that the world's peoples are moving closer to being able to speak to each other in a single native language.

How do you see it?

a unified earth would be fantastic, kind of a shame that losing ones cultural identity seems to be the price though.

[Edited on Mar 08, 2005 by Jeff_Fries]

Everyone should move to Japanese... that would calm the fuck out of some people... having to be stoic enough to learn a language with thousands of heiroglyphs....

God is against a unified earth. He seperated us and put up language barriers so that we couldnt build a tower to heaven. It seems he really doesnt want our company.

Which is never going to happen. There are different languages and different cultures because people are spread across the Earth. Perhaps when we reach Gattaca stage the middle and upper class will all belong to whatever race Mariah Carey belongs to.

Death to English! Vive la France!

Starting to wonder if it's worth me sticking out studying Swedish- that's gotta be one of the next ones to go... they already speak English half the time...

but then you wouldnt be able to understand the swedish chef.

smerddy fordddy feddy fued.

In related news, 99% of the world's current population will be gone in the next 100 years. Including you. So go ahead, study Swedish. You'll be gone before it is.

first, we have this new fangled invention called writing. so write down your history.

languages are dying? well hell, let's get rid of these "Johnny come lately" languages like English, Spanish, and French, and go back to the good old days of Latin! don't let the good old day pass away. to hell with change, fuck evolution !!!!! it's no damn good, stagnation is LIFE!!!!! who's with me?!?!?! can I hear an AMEN?!?!!? screw electricity, fuck refrigeration, to hell with penicillin, screw equal rights, get the women back in the kitchen, down with science. the earth is flat, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise or you will burn in the fiery depths of Hell.

Oh, and if you can’t tell, this is another new concept called sarcasm.

Interestingly, it makes no note of the way these 8 languages are evolving. In lots of locations they've diversified with their own particular phrases etc.

Still I guess the internet and TV are stopping that now. Soon we'll all speak like we're in 'Friends' - even the natives in the Amazon.

Anyone for Esperanto?




Anyone?

Come on now, some of the reviews on there aren't exactly the most informed ever, but suggesting the customers speak like they're in Friends is quite cheap shot...

Guess it seems pointless to learn Conversational Dolnoserbski...



Mi konsenti, Esperanto estas la nova / malnova mondo lingvo. Ebena William Shatner senti la sama vojo.

bring latin back!

Eventually, and i mean eventually its envitable we'll all speak the same language and they'll be no country borders and we'll all look roughly the same, but hopefully for sake of human race not like me.

Every people should talk American!

no

They'll get rid of mine for sure. Welsh is already on the way out. But i'll do my upmost to keep it alive.
Rydw i'n hoffi Cymraeg!

That's the first thing I thought of.

YESSSSSSS!!!!!

And maybe ESP Records will come back and reissue their Esperanto instructional LPs.

Woo-hoo!

[Edited cos I'm retarded at this hour.]

[Edited on Mar 08, 2005 7:38AM]

Yay! Now we can all learn Dubya-speak!

Dude, I think you mean "negatorius", which is Latinian for "no."


[Edited on Mar 08, 2005 6:16AM]