Re: Gaelic things

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.
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