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Re: Gaelic things

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 3:21
On 07/09 09:01  Barry Garcia wrote:

> I just thought of something I read in my book "The World's Writing > Systems" edited by Daniels and Bright (Oxford University Press). In it > they said that perhaps 50% of the world's languages that are in existence > today will most likely be extinct by the end of this century. Kind of mind > blowing. >
I read a book by David Crystal recently that deduced statistically speaking a language dies every couple of months. He concluded the book with the observation that during its writing three languages should have died. I think the book was called Language Death or Language Extinction. Very easy to read and it included a lot of interesting anecdotes. My favorite was when the Manic Street Preachers' Album Title _This is my truth, show me yours_ was translated into Welsh for a billboard, the purists complained over a grammatical error. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html The tribe need a father who is afraid only of ceasing to love them well. - James K. Baxter