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Post by Elizabeth on Jul 9, 2018 6:16:03 GMT
Any one know?
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KGrim
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Coming back to Arktos...for a little while anyways...just to see how things are doing.
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Post by KGrim on Mar 4, 2020 22:36:32 GMT
My only experience with a dead langauge comes from translating transliterated Sumerian texts. And what I can tell from that is that its grammatical structure is vastly inferior to that of any modern language I know. Even though every language evolves over time, it could be that different languages have different potential in that respect, and that Sumerian proved to be a dead end. By Design, Ignorant and Unstructured Speech Leads to Ignorant and Unstructured ThoughtThen English is dying too. The Anti-Grammar Nazis' contempt for structured usage has struck our speech like a virus. What's worse, it's not even being considered as "dumbed-down education,"even though it is the most widespread and mind-numbing part of that scheme. Using "they" with a singular antecedent fractures a critical mental ability. (As in, "If a lawyer does that, they should be disbarred") The enemies of intelligent thought purposely put the antecedent in the singular when, if they weren't covert agents of mind control, they would have used "lawyers" in that antecedent. I just don't believe in that. Languages live and die and I think God designed them to be that way ever since He split the Ademic language into parts at the Tower of Babel. Grammar is not as important as intelligibility. People that have bad grammar can have intelligent thoughts. People make grammatical mistakes all the time, but that doesn't mean they're unintelligent. Faulting someone on their grammar while ignoring the meaning of their words is just petty.
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Mar 5, 2020 4:11:54 GMT
• Language shift • Cultural assimilation • The language of main population vs. languages of ethnic minorities • When the language of migrants or invaders replaces them • When a language loses its usage & nobody wants to use it anymore even its own native speakers • Other cultural, political, and religious reasons
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Post by jonbain on Jul 28, 2020 15:46:38 GMT
all human constructs die through a lack of transcendental ethic: narcissism, and egocentricity often masquerade as that which they oppose too
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