hi i am bo!
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Hi, I'm Bo and this is the story of my life - and death.TRANSCRIPT
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Imma gonna
need more candles
For 2600
generations
of the world’s languages..
..are spoken by six percent of the world’s population
A language dies every two weeks
languages have only
speaker left
By the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages will be extinct.
Some linguists claim that
Competition? Globalization?
Shifting Allegiance?
Linguistic Warfare?
Disease? Genocide? Epidemic? Glottopolitics?
Indifference.
Indifference* *is injurious to our health
Imagine being the only speaker of your language..
Extinction of a language does have its economic and practical advantages..
But the death of each language is another step on a treadmill towards humankind’s cultural oblivion ..
http://thelousylinguist.blogspot.com/2010/03/is-language-death-all-that-bad.html
- The Lousy Linguist
It is a loss like none other
‘When I think of my tongue being no longer alive in the mouths of men, a chill goes over me that is deeper than my own death, since it is the gathered death of all my kind.’
- David Malouf in The Only Speaker of His Tongue
A language is not just a way to communicate..
Tonight? Nope.
A language is a way of being..
each language is ’a whole alternative universe, since the world as we know it is in the last resort the words through which we imagine and name it.
- David Malouf
Stop cruelty to Languages!
Preserve Us. Nurture Us. Pass Us on.
Goodbye then!
Do vote for us!
Presentation Trivia
In case you couldn’t identify, the lady in the sizzling outfit is
Bo Derek. The musician is Bo Diddely. Now go Google it.
Slide 6 and 7 have some Braille characters at the top and some Sign language symbols at the bottom.
Image credits
http://kopjik.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/boa-sr-from-great-andamanese-group.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/112835575/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/people/24512729@N00
For Bo Derek, Bo Diddely and RIP Gif, Copyright information was not available. If you own the photos, contact me @ [email protected]
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