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Originally Posted by Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim On the other hand how can the present human language cope with the future speed pace and information density? There must a kind of a tool to take on this challenge. But any digitization is certainly simplification, reduction and language poverty. |
Is there really a need for such a language tool? As you have mentioned, language is forever changing so why can't it 'change' to accommodate the society we live in. It has done so since the begining.
I agree that digitization of language will rob language of much of its beauty. Luckily I don't think such a revolution will occur. If language was purely a mean of exchanging information then there might be a future. However language is for much more than that (eg. A primary tool for 'social cuddling' ^^) Computers and machines can employ such a language but we cannot.
Right now I cannot see a Global Language (wherther it be a variant of English or not) that is the same everwhere. Simpliy because I think it's impossible to create or mould a language devoided of any complication (eg. ambiguity). There are so many different cultures in the world and our views on matters are so different. So even if a global language is introduced, it will soon cease to exist as people modify it to their needs. Because we don't know if language will change culture or will culture change language.
Manually controlling a language is about as easy as controlling a culture.
~minna