Friday, May 17, 2013

Reversing Babel

Regional dialects are dying out:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/201351616123286864.html

Our languages were confounded after Babel, but now we're becoming one again.

Is that a good idea? Species that lose their diversity tend to die out. We'll be next.

(Language is not genetic diversity, but we're losing that too.)

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