Re: tlug: kanji or romaji for Japanese? (was: parallel-port IDE)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > I think that this is what someone once meant by the 'babel' concept -
> > human languages tend to diverge into more and more fragmented languages
> > instead of converging on one language.  It's kind of sad.  Imagine all the
> 
> Actually, it's going the other way.  The attrition rate of languages today
> is tremendous.  Linguists are scrambling to record disappearing languages
> while there are still native speakers left, but splinter languages are
> probably now disappearing faster than they can be recorded.  It is not
> likely that there will ever be just one world language, but language
> extinction seems to be accellerating, rather than slowing down.

this is good!  I am aquiver with glee at this news.  Maybe the information
age has finally produced something good besides Linux, flight simulators,
and train simulation games? :)

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