Re:A book claims that Americanisms will have absorbed the En...
by posterboy on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:25AM
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strawman! those aren't necessarily the same people. Edit: But even though, a bit of cognitive dissonance is part of the learning process. I think you are pointing out a true correlation. which is, often times its enough to be popular or just shout the loudest to attract attention, and everything else might follow.
Re:A book claims that Americanisms will have absorbed the En...
by coldtea on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:21PM
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>strawman! those aren't necessarily the same people.
Well, isn't that a strawman too? Seeing that, I didn't say those are "necessarily" the same people -- just that "some people" hold both opinions simultaneously.
Not really, it goes mostly from the direction of the stronger nations to the less strong in the relationship.
And cultures and languages do die out in such processes.
Now, some might find all this inconsequential, but for some of us those things means something (and the fact that historically things change and die anyway isn't more comforting than it is when its told about one's family dying).
What I'm more amazed is how people can lament some latest sequel to a movie franchise "betraying" or losing the spirit of the original or losing its way etc, but at the same time can't understand others that are concerned with whole cultures doing the same.