“Change
your language and you change your thoughts.”
-- Karl Albrecht
| You
probably know that many of the world's plants and animals are in danger of extinction,
but did you know that many human languages are in danger of becoming extinct,
too? Globalization has helped to make the world a smaller place. But it has also
contributed to the loss of many languages around the world. Every two weeks another
language disappears forever! Once a language is lost, humanity loses a part of
our rich heritage. Helping to preserve endangered languages is important to keep
traditions alive.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
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"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi
Annan |  |
Language is power,
life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
-- Angela Carter
If
our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new
media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally
marginalized.
-- Jacques Chirac
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“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but
the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely
varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
-- Noam Chomsky |
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“If
language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said
is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone,
morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand
about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.
This matters above everything.”
-- Confucius
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There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than
somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They
have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for
me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.
~ John Denver
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A
different language is a different vision of life.
~Federico Fellini
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