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Subject: Re: Unesco: Languages under threat Posted on: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:15:02 +0200

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:36:40 +0200, *~* Magda *~*
wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:22:36 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Dave Frightens Me
> arranged some electrons, so they looked like
>this:
>
> ... On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:44:06 +0200, *~* Magda *~*
> ... wrote:
> ...
> ... >On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:39:44 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, Dave Frightens Me
> ... > arranged some electrons, so they looked like
> ... >this:
> ... >
> ... > ... On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:45:53 +0200, Mxsmanic
> ... > ... wrote:
> ... > ...
> ... > ... >Corgi bit me 'nads writes:
> ... > ... >
> ... > ... >> In Africa, 80% of oral dialects are in danger of dying out
> ... > ... >>
> ... > ... >> More than half of the 6000 languages spoken in the world today may
> ... > ... >> disappear by the end of the century, the UN cultural organisation
> ... > ... >> Unesco said on the occasion of International Mother Language Day.
> ... > ... >
> ... > ... >So?
> ... > ...
> ... > ... I'll join Mixi at this point to say who really cares.
> ... >
> ... >Not the devil-may-cares...
> ...
> ... I just can't see the point in trying to preserve numerous under-used
> ... dialects.
>
>Sure. Who cares when a part of our very culture goes down the drain? Creation, Tradition,
>Communication, Folklore, History... all shit, isn't it?

All of that can occur with whatever language, can't it?
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