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I don't get why people are up in arms over lost languages or lost cultures, unless of course if it's due to genocide.
But USA was inhabited by people from alol over the world, but it's damned practical that they almost all speak English.
Having as many languages as we have is a mess, and speaking the same language is a clear advantage for everybody.
Regarding culture, people don't lose their culture in general, they adopt other cultures over time.
Just like people have evolved biologically over time, so do we also evolve culturally, but the cultural evolution is much much faster.
And it's fucking great that cultures evolve, because that's the way to get rid of religion and other traits of our cultures that are detrimental to in general.
Only if your understanding of human language is that it is simply a tool for life, not an expression of life or intelligence itself.
No you are catastrophically wrong, but most people agree with you all the same and damn us all for that.
When we all speak exactly the same language, that will be by definition the moment we have reached a point of no return in the destruction of our own species.
I disagree, if we use English as an example, there are clear differences between the English spoken in NY and Texas even though both are within USA, and there are differences between England and Scotland, these differences are even within the same country. The advantage is that the understanding of a concept framed in one of these regions, can spread more easily across all English language regions.
Which is probably a major reason English is one of the richest languages we have. On the downside it's also a mess, but it enables you and I to communicate, while a 100 years ago there would be near zero chance I would understand any English at all!
So you can't deny the very clear advantage of being able to communicate and share ideas.
Of course any language is an expression of life intelligence and defining abstract ideas. It's not just an expression of it, but also how we think. Language is a tool to both form and express our thoughts.
So what exactly is your point? Because I don't get it from your other post either.
It's not the richest language (en), but it likely the most flexible.