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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: Dialect or Language?difference=???
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 22:38:18 GMT
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In article <3bi3rl$jlu@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>,
Hung J Lu <hlu@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>
>Languages are disappearing at an alarming rate.
>Whether that is good or bad, I don't know, but
>it's just a fact. The disappearance rate is
>probably exponential, meaning that a lot of
          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>languages disappear quickly, but it will take
>more and more time for the integration of the
>remaining languages.

I don't really speak math too well :-), but shouldn't that
be "logarithmic"?


>I guess it's fun to be able to speak a lot of languages.
>(I guess everyone in this forum can speak a few, and we
>all love it.) As long as there is a lingua franca for all,
>so that any two human beings can communicate by speech,
>I think the diversity of languages is a good thing.
>
>-- Ekki


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