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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4623 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 17 of 19 01 March 2013 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always remember an interview with a Swedish professor who was asked if he thought his own language was under threat due to the increasing global use of English. He dismissed the notion entirely, pointing out that Sweden is a small seafaring and trading nation that has always had to learn other languages in order to communicate with the wider world.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 18 of 19 01 March 2013 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting article, and I have to admit that part of its attraction to me is that it lines up partially with my wariness of statism and antipathy of nationalism and its role in forming nation-states as understood since the 19th century.
Some of the points brought up in the article make me recall my sociolinguistic understanding of Saamic languages, Meadow Mari and dialects which are treasured in name by the State downward in the name of national identity/delineation (i.e. reinforcing its hegemony over over a linguistically diverse territory) but in practice are being crowded out by the standard language that's backed up by a public education curriculum complete with prescriptive grammar manuals and orthographical dictionaries issued by state-run/sponsored publishing houses to mold young impressionable minds in the classroom. To see related discussion, note that the infamous COF started a thread about standardization, which perhaps surprisingly didn't get locked. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6866 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 19 of 19 02 March 2013 at 4:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Interesting you say that. I remember reading somewhere that the reason accents were melting together was because of the mass media 1 person has voted this message useful |
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