review of _German: Biography of a Language_

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Languages do not usually spread
> because newcomers replace indigenous peoples. Rather, those already there
> often take up the new settlers' tongue.

What motivates indigenous peoples to do that?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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