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Re:The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dying by serf on Saturday January 27, 2024 @11:35PM (#39162618)
languages facilitate different modes of thinking, I suppose one of the dangers in letting less commonly used languages die off is that it would seemingly promote more homogeneity in human thought.
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Re:The State of the 7,168 Living Languages: 14% are dying by zilti on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:07AM (#39173573)
The influence of language on thought is marginal; theories like sapphir-whorf have been falsified many times.
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