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And that's what makes English marvelous--it's a melting-pot language. Because it's more fluid than other languages, it thrives.
And I don't remember who posted this earlier, butLatin isn't quite dead.
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True, but you will always have a plurality of languages.
The languages that are going extinct are you know, things like amazonian rainforest tribal language that is spoken by 300 people. A worthless language with no real alphabet, great works of literature, etc. In all things, those people would be better served by learning portugesse.
Or some other such languages. So no language that has a decent population on the map isn't going extinct and won't go extinct. Just the languages that are... you know... pointless.
Anyway, this isn't good or bad. It's neither. It's just the march of time.
And that's what makes English marvelous--it's a melting-pot language. Because it's more fluid than other languages, it thrives.
And I don't remember who posted this earlier, but Latin isn't quite dead.
So the obvious question is, who the hell do you think you are?
Next question is, what are you growing in that orchard?
Nice scenery.
Looks like it might be a good place for a volcano to erupt some day.
Quite a few Catholics do use Latin, eh?
My kids are all taking Latin in school. It isn't a conversational language but it's an awesome language. I studied Latin in HS and kicked ass on my verbal SATs because of it. To this day when I don't know what a word means I wonder if it's from the Latin, and find that it usually is, and then I can figure it out.
And whether they think about it, people use Latin every day...whether they're drawing a per diem or serving on an ad hoc committee or offering someone a quid pro quo or writing "for example" or "that is to say" in abbreviated form as e.g. and i.e.
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I didn't claim it remains a conversational language; I said it's used every day.
Except it isn't, it's become English-ized. Those are just English words derived from Latin.
They are Latin words used in an English context, if anything.
1ad hoc adverb \ˈad-ˈhäk, -ˈhōk; ˈäd-ˈhōk\Definition of AD HOC
: for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application
Origin of AD HOC
Latin, for this
First Known Use: 1659
Ad hoc - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Except it isn't, it's become English-ized. Those are just English words derived from Latin.
Except it isn't, it's become English-ized. Those are just English words derived from Latin.
Quite a few Catholics do use Latin, eh?
I haven't seen a thread on this and thought it was kind of interesting.
There was a report recently that up to half of the world's currently spoken languages are in danger of dying out in the next century. Here's an article about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/world/18cnd-language.html
The article paints it as a bad thing, but I'm not so sure it is. Fewer languages being spoken around the world means communication with other people gets easier.
What do you think?
Great thing! I look forward to a more homogenous world and I earnestly look forward to the day when mankind is united by one language.
I haven't seen a thread on this and thought it was kind of interesting.
There was a report recently that up to half of the world's currently spoken languages are in danger of dying out in the next century. Here's an article about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/world/18cnd-language.html
The article paints it as a bad thing, but I'm not so sure it is. Fewer languages being spoken around the world means communication with other people gets easier.
What do you think?
I haven't seen a thread on this and thought it was kind of interesting.
There was a report recently that up to half of the world's currently spoken languages are in danger of dying out in the next century. Here's an article about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/world/18cnd-language.html
The article paints it as a bad thing, but I'm not so sure it is. Fewer languages being spoken around the world means communication with other people gets easier.
What do you think?
And that's what makes English marvelous--it's a melting-pot language. Because it's more fluid than other languages, it thrives.
And I don't remember who posted this earlier, but Latin isn't quite dead.