Quote of the Day | 0714
Global communication is taking over these major languages. I’m currently reading some Greek detective thrillers by Petros Markaris and it would be fairly easy to translate them into English because they are in a form that is familiar to us ever since Sherlock Holmes. The more there is global communication – whether direct or through translation – the more there will be a coming together of the kind of things people are saying in their different languages. You could argue that retaining your own language is some way of putting a break on this process and thus protecting that diversity. But this tendency towards coalescence is certainly there.
‘FiveBooks Interviews >
Nicholas Ostler on the History and Diversity of Language’
[x]#10224 fan zaterdag 14 juli 2012 @ 13:33:08
