Re: Linguistic Agonies

15 Nov 2005 10:12:34 -0800: "Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim" <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

>We are not practising linguistic pluralism (which sounds democratic)
>only but also hegomony and linguistic rape. Human beings will always
>have their varieties but it is time for a standard writen language as
>the official language all over the globe. I am well aware of the
>principle of democracy in language but the rise of a dialect to power
>as the official language of a country has always been based on social,
>political or military power. In addition what we are witnessing is
>unique in human history.

Is it? Didn't what is happening with English now, happen before, with
Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin, Qur'an, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia,
Spanish, Russian etc. etc.? On a smaller scale, but with the same
mechanisms?

>English cannot be global and at the same time
>reserve identity monoploy rights only to´a small fraction of the
>world population.

Latin today is still the language of ancient Rome, even if later it
was intensively used by scolars in Western Europe, Greeks in
Byzantium, catholics all over the world, and in the past and present
by biologists to have unambiguous names for plants and animals.


--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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