Friday, January 8th, 2010
Mass Extinction

Of Languages.
Some linguist dude is suggesting that 90% of the 6,000 languages spoken today will be extinct in a century. He suggests that minor languages are a barrier to full participation in prosperous societies and that the unique world views encoded in them are kind of boring when you think about it. I’m down with that, everyone should have universal translators in their heads by 2110 anyhow, so fuck paying to preserve obscure languages.

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