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Re:No Language Left Behind by Gigachad on Friday July 08, 2022 @01:48AM (#32023765)
No not really. English has shifted so far that those works are hardly as understandable now as a modern translated work.
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Re:No Language Left Behind by cyphar on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:09AM (#32026102)
That isn't the case for every language, I'm just trying to come up with an equivalent explanation of why wishing for languages to die out is a bad thing.
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