Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years
by seiji on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:46PM
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Online regional Indian spats are always entertaining.
There's so much pride dripping from every word forming a pool of vitriol towards anything not-like-the-speaker.
(and if "Language and Culture are central to Identity" perhaps we should cultivate a larger view of the world? Being blindingly obsessed with culture and history isn't healthy. Forming your entire identity around the past leads to moronic things like never ending wars because someone slighted someone else's father two hundred years ago.)
There's so much pride dripping from every word forming a pool of vitriol towards anything not-like-the-speaker.
(and if "Language and Culture are central to Identity" perhaps we should cultivate a larger view of the world? Being blindingly obsessed with culture and history isn't healthy. Forming your entire identity around the past leads to moronic things like never ending wars because someone slighted someone else's father two hundred years ago.)