2014年3月16日星期日

Multilingualism, Mission: Impossible (XIII)

For the past few centuries, hundreds of languages disappeared totally, that is the fault of multilingualism, for they pretend to spread such language and failed. On the other hand they didn’t pay money and energy to collect the information and material of such languages.
To decode the Rosetta Stone it took twenty years. If only the ancient people know that their language is going to disappear and left some clue for that language, such as a Greek/Egyptian dictionary it will help us a lot. And things will be better than they are now.

What we want to know is not the language itself but the culture that carried by the language. In this way, the more important thing is how to link a certain language to a rational language; a language can survival as long as human being exist. When the time is changing, even a once powerful language as Latin can be regarded as died language. But the reason will exist forever, only the reason will accompany human being to the end. So to link every language to the real rational language is helping it to survival. We have plenty electronic means to record the picture, the sound and nearly all the detail of a language, why not collect and record them to help the future people to know them before they are dead, instead force today’s people to practice them one by one? Push more people to practice a certain language will not stop the fate of its disappearing but to link it with a rational language will.

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