It's languages day at WTF!

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Hundreds of the world's endangered languages are spoken in and around New York City.

Hopefully this gift link that I got can be shared with others...

https://news.join1440.com/t/j-l-skjlia-dikkmjtx-th/

when i was growing up and later when i lived in nyc, there were yiddish newspapers on every newsstand. all four of my grandparents spoke the language. it seems incredible to me that it is near extinction.

As a matter of curiosity: cool, we have so many languages! Isn’t that neat, isn’t that interesting!?

As a matter of practicality: do we really need all these languages? We know how to create new languages, we can whip up a whole new bunch of them whenever we want.