Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
When we don’t have the words or when our words are overly broad, we run into misconceptions.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
I think what’s important here too is that this isn’t about removing cultural nuance. It’s not about removing the richness of language or the richness of culture. It’s about kind of reorienting, I guess, our borders around things that aren’t violent. I mean, the current issue really is that, you know, culture and language are reinforcing a kind of v
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it is precisely those areas of the Earth that were the most hospitable to people and languages, to species of all kinds, that are now becoming the least hospitable.
Anastasia Riehl • The Rising Ocean Will Extinguish More Than Land. It Will Kill Entire Languages
“They beat the language out of us in school,” remembered one elderly Alaska Native. “Whenever I speak Tlingit, I can still taste the soap,” another confirmed (his language now has fewer than a thousand speakers). On Guam, the naval government prohibited the use of Chamoru on school grounds, in courts, and in governmental offices. Children caught sp
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