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Remember that language is alive. In the same way you can trace genetic lineage and so trace how groups of people moved and interacted over the ages, you can do the same with language (in fact language and genetics closely follow, and it is only when there is a mass displacement of people from culture that this isn't so). So is this good or bad?
Well we have effectively put everyone in one room, so with more people and minds then there is more diversity which is good for the language "gene" pool. The only down side could be gain of homolinguality when language conforms and loses diversity because the exchange and selection of words becomes faster then the rate of change in language. Of course with such rapid exchange new words/terms/concepts can spread faster than ever and I'm all for this. |
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