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<p>I was off ILAT for several days, got back this morning, and saw a lot of concerns with numbers and quantity (and many other interesting and inspiring discussions, as always). They made me stop to think, and think about stops (how many days? how much...? ...they all seem to set a boundary and hence limitation.).</p>
<p>Thank you, Richard, for offering another time-space to think about continuation.</p>
<p>Jimmy</p>
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<p>On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:50:30 -0500, Richard Zane Smith wrote:</p>
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<p>"one language dies every 14 days" <br />hmmmmmm...really?<br />what happens when there is only 33 languages left? or 3 languages left? will they still die every 14 days?<br />By these statistics, eventually, in time, even English and Mandarin will be on the chopping block.<br /> each 14 days apart from extinction of course.<br />maybe by then we'll at least have some silence...from statisticians <br /><br /></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">statistics are weird.<br /><br />-Richard<br /><br /><br />On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">NOTES ON QUOTES: Losing Languages And Saving Mother Tongues<br /><br />By Gordon and Marcia Mercer, The Raleigh Telegram<br /> USA<br /><br />RALEIGH – “One language dies every 14 days,” says Russ Rymer of the National Geographic Society.<br /><br />By most calculations there are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages on planet earth. There is fear, however, that by beginning of the next century 50% to 80 % of existing languages will be gone.<br /><br />Reasons for the mass extinction often involve a larger culture doing something, usually bad, to a smaller culture. In the United States, for example, even into the 1950s, Native American Indian children were punished at school for speaking in their native tongue.<br /><br />Article Posted: Monday, August 27th, 2012.<br /><br />Access full article below:<br /><a href="http://raleightelegram.com/201208273013">http://raleightelegram.com/201208273013</a><br /></span></span></blockquote>
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