It happens all too often people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.
Andrew Dalby
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Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.
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On the basis of this information it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter everybody would be at war even more often.
- Andrew Dalby