It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
I love language, and I love the failure of language.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
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