This one takes some explanation. There's this TEDx talk on the globalization of English. One of the facts mentioned in the video is that languages are "dying" at a rate of about one every fourteen days. I put "dying" in quotes because that's the word Patricia Ryan used. I commented on this to a professor, who I then discovered is committed to the preservation of indigenous languages, and that professor told me that the preferred term (from the perspective of the speakers of indigenous languages) is "dormant" or "sleeping". And some languages—like Nanticoke, which ran out of living speakers more than a hundred fifty years ago—are beginning to wake.
So. Prompt:
Languages sleep and languages wake. Do languages dream?
oh hey one more prompt
Date: 2015-01-17 04:03 pm (UTC)So. Prompt:
Languages sleep and languages wake. Do languages dream?