There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but that number is shrinking. Unesco estimates that half could disappear by the end of the century. So how are languages lost, and what does that mean for the people who speak them?

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    My wife just explained to me that Navaho Indians were used for communications by the Americans, because the Germans didn’t understand it. That’s quite clever of course.
    I suppose that’s the point of the first picture, but I have no idea what the point of the second picture is.

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      5 days ago

      I suppose that’s the point of the first picture, but I have no idea what the point of the second picture is.

      Normally I am ideologically opposed to not explaining things if other friendly people ask, but in this case the lack of explanation is the point.

      I know what meaning that “symbol” has and so do many people, but you do not, and that gives us power to have a conversation outside your grasp in plain sight.

      You are perfectly capable of figuring out what the second picture is, but it would already be too late in this metaphor for you to learn if we weren’t having a conversation and instead fighting (which I do not desire).