just walked back from Lucca's Deli* eating an ice-cream bar in the freeezing cold, a simple pleasure i will for sure be taking to my grave
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We can also be simple about this: language and dialects have typically arisen from isolation, and that factor is curently declining because the economic power of the United States has spread English language media all over the world and made English the lingua franca of global business and tourism. A language only spreads if there's an advantage in speaking it. English itself is the product of hundreds of years of conquest: first a Germanic language used by Saxons, then marinated for 300 years in French after the Normans
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at first read that looked like "the state desired by all hard-on intellectuals," which actually made a lot more sense....
but thanks for the insight. it's the thinking part that's interesting, especially if you think of languages as offshoots of mothertongues; on paper they all look different enough but the roots are so eeriely similar. you (and everyone else) should read Snowcrash.
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but thanks for the insight. it's the thinking part that's interesting, especially if you think of languages as offshoots of mothertongues; on paper they all look different enough but the roots are so eeriely similar. you (and everyone else) should read Snowcrash.
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