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Re:A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dy... by vkou on Friday July 09, 2021 @08:23PM (#27789954)
It's not lost to the world, you just need to learn the still-living language it's written in.

And on whatever lingua franca you choose to adopt, there will be an unbounded number of yet-to-be-written-works-of-shakespeare, that this language would lack the ability to express.

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Re:A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalian, a dy... by azangru on Friday July 09, 2021 @08:35PM (#27790031)
> It's not lost to the world, you just need to learn the still-living language it's written in.

Just?

Given how complex every language is, and the level of mastery that is required to read and appreciate the hypothetical Shakespeare of that language, and the time and effort that is required to achieve this level of mastery, this is highly impractical.

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