Jared Diamond On the Death of Multilingualism and the Birth of Klingon
LA’s favorite geography and physiology professor with a wicked Boston accent Jared Diamond made an appearance over the weekend at the LA Museum of Natural History’s “First Friday” gathering. Diamond gave a half-hour talk on the importance of preserving the world’s 7,000 different languages–6,800 of which, he says, are expected to go extinct by 2,100.
We asked Diamond his thoughts on the Internet’s capacity for language preservation. He had mixed feelings.
“On the one hand, whenever I email my friends in Ghana or New Guinea, I inevitably do so in English.
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