To quote a 20th century writer, "It's evolution, baby!"

Whoa I can see most of you didn't RTFA..and who can blame you. Sorry sub, it's interesting stuff to the right reader but I couldn't make it even half way through. It's 5am and that shiat is putting me back to sleep.

English ain't dying. Oldstyle scri(p)t used to be all fancy and difficult to understand so the peasants couldn't understand what the churches were sending to each other, correspondence along with huge f*cking war chests of conquered lands, back to Rome.

You weren't taught to read or write in the 'dark ages' unless you committed yourself to becoming a servant of the catholic church, so they cold control the roman empire's peasants, sales force.

/off to history of the world
//mel brooks owns 3 of the top 5 best comedies of all time:
.f*ck religion it's a lie

our mouths Upgrayedd

It's the economics, stupid.

GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

TLDR.

That's what I get for majoring in Sanskrit.

gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

gozar_the_destroyer: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray.

If thee is gast to portend a pette sneap in thee skein-mates manner of fair language then prey thou doeth nayer be barbed by the missance of ye olde proper englishe.

Thou texts shall be brabble-full and thy extant-dispatchings will be fobbed.

I say shine on crazy grammar hipsters. The english language is alive.

i grew up listening to old men in overalls speaking an obscure 19th century central european dialect while playing penny pitch and drinking budweiser. now they are all dead and I never learned none of it. no, not even how to play pitch.


//bitter slashies

Because assholes like me move abroad and make everyone speak English. How many languages do we need, anyway?

Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray.

Kira at Bashi.

Let's start with the death French.

Al Hashshashin: If thee is gast to portend a pette sneap in thee skein-mates manner of fair language then prey thou doeth nayer be barbed by the missance of ye olde proper englishe.

Thou texts shall be brabble-full and thy extant-dispatchings will be fobbed.

I say shine on crazy grammar hipsters. The english language is alive.

I see it sir, yet spelling undefined and þe changing of definite pronunciation could ruin it. I shutter @ what y^e next generation & y^e one after Þ^t will do to y^e language.

\Þou asked for it

WTF? tl; dr

Como?

FirstNationalBastard: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray.

Zinda - his face black, his eyes red.

Santorum and sweat on a dead man's balls.

FirstNationalBastard: gozar_the_destroyer: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray.

Kira at Bashi.

Chenza at court - the court of silence.

Gozar as Kiteo listening to Be.
Gozar becoming Picard to Be.
Be as Kadir beneath Mo Moteh!
Gozar, his arms wide.
Be, at rest.
All as Zinda, his face black, his eyes red!
Gozar, his arms wide to be as Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Kiteo, his eyes closed!
Be, on the ocean.
Shaka and Gozar, when the walls fell.
Gozar faces the beast at Tanagra.

Gozar at Fark in the Cool Story Bro area.

\for those whom are teary eyed as Kiteo. (new window)
\for those are as as students to Kiteo. (new window)

pheed: FirstNationalBastard: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: Kant Lavar: gozar_the_destroyer: GAT_00: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Temba, his arms wide!

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray.

Zinda - his face black, his eyes red.

Santorum and sweat on a dead man's balls.

Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.


\Shaka, when the walls fell...

All languages other than English should be banned.

Interdum modo mori, quia lingua eruditus sit, docet litteras societatis. Ore et scripto deinde dialecto usus magna divide relictis loquendi lorem. Sed quaeritur Caesar.

I learned spanish by accident working in a factory during college. Seriously, if you are around people speaking something all day you would be amazed how fast you pick it up. Its pretty great actually because now I can put bilingual on job apps and I haven't taken a spanish class since my sophomore year of highschool.

/can't really read it or write it very well though

FredaDeStilleto: Interdum modo mori, quia lingua eruditus sit, docet litteras societatis. Ore et scripto deinde dialecto usus magna divide relictis loquendi lorem. Sed quaeritur Caesar.

you forgot to conjugate the verb. dumbass.

FredaDeStilleto: Interdum modo mori, quia lingua eruditus sit, docet litteras societatis. Ore et scripto deinde dialecto usus magna divide relictis loquendi lorem. Sed quaeritur Caesar.

Il "Cesare" può succhiare il mio palle poiché non è nulla più di un dittatore. Ottenere con i tempi e quello che abbiamo fatto con l'ultimo.

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Gaire! Nil fhios agam.

I'm torn on this really. I'm all for optimization of languages to promote a faster, more efficient, and easier means of communication. Problem is, it seems (probably the key word there) to make people stupid since they don't have to think as much. Am I off track thinking along those lines?

The only part of the article that made complete sense to me was the discussion of parents not teaching a minority language to the kids. My mother was convinced a Southern accent kept her from moving up in higher management back in the 1940's, so she practically beat it out of her kids. It never occurred to her that being female was as much of a problem as being perceived as a hick. Now, people I live near don't believe I still live less than 50 miles from where I was born. OTOH, if I call anywhere outside the Deep South, everybody notices my accent. Apparently, it's not as thick as Kyra Sedgewick lays it on.

MustTryHarder: All languages other than English should be banned.

Even Pig Latin ?

E pluribus unum

The newly-born Turkish Republic did just this in order to solidify a mass of tribes under the Ottoman Empire into a country with an identity. How many languages went by the wayside? Dialects of the Black Sea were easily crushed: Laz, Abaza (both words now ethnic slurs in Turkish), Mingrel, Svan, Udi, and so on.

Other languages in the Empire were lost when the entity shrank to the boundaries of modern Turkey: Vlach and Romanian (in Romania), Berber, Albanian, Italian, Coptic, Crimean Tatar and Urum (in Ukraine), Domari, Persian, Gagauz (Moldova), Ruthenian (Slovakia),Serbian and many others.

Still others were harder to kill or absorb. Note the problems with ethnic Kurds wishing to speak their own language. Zazaki, Gorani and Talyishi are still spoken in Eastern Turkey. There is an Armenian-speaking village called Vakifli koy in the Hatay region bordering Syria.

Languages associated with religions were allowed to continue. Aramaic is still spoken at the monastery of Deyrul Zafaran, near Mardin. Arabs, though generally a despised minority, speak the language of the K'uran. Maronite Christians speak French, and Hebrew is spoken at the synagogues.

Now, before the CHP hunts me down, I'm not dissing Ataturk. Just saying that Westernizing language reform and forcing national identity through common language had serious consequences in Turkey.

All that's needed is English. All the rest is just gibberish anyway.

\(o_O)/

Languages die because they don't have enough gold.

Crosshair: Your statement is Ironic considering the Judeo-Christian worldview makes modern science possible.

This would be extremely ironic if it were true.