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lhfm
3 years ago
Not really proud of this post. I think I could have written something better, but I just wanted this to be done so I can stop thinking about it...
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murid
3 years ago
This is just speculation on my side from a non-English speaking country, but technology is going to change our relationship with Lingua franca. With advances in machine translation, I think that the utilitarian need for a lingua franca might change. The tendency of social media to fragment society might also give rise to nationalists that actively resist foreign languages.
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murid
3 years ago
English's rise as the global Lingua franca has a lot to do with the post-WW2 dominance of the USA. In the British empire, while geographically widespread, English penetration within societies was limited. Perhaps we won't see another 'top' language, but a few local languages supported by machine translation, as the world moves into a phase where there isn't just one superpower, but several regional powers.
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saint-images
3 years ago
"political, technological, cultural, and trade dominance of English in our times". I hate it with my guts. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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I added the Black-billed Magpie to my birbs page https://lhfm.neocities.org/birbs.html I've seen so many of them, but I completely forgot that I like this bird until I saw one outside my window an hour ago.
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Neocities needs an undelete feature 😔
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This sounds so much like fripside lol
Does sound familiar 🤔