| Not everything has to be useful: you used the same technique there you implicitly criticised me using ;o) Communication, is for communication. Yes, it's good to have localised codes, domain languages, private communications; quirky ways to make crypto-poetry, or to create artistic expressions. But we, IMO, should be very wary of placing those above or ability to communicate effectively with as many people as we're able. In Welsh counties of the UK school children are forced to learn Cymraeg, a language that doesn't help them access any other cultures, not communicate with any other people they can't already (except literally one or two pre-schoolers). Cymraeg is very interesting and holds together part of the story of UK, my home country, but for communication it's a bad choice. I've no problem with people choosing to learn languages for purposes other than communication; but forcing schoolchildren to learn a second language that's near useless [compared to global modern languages] as a communication tool, that's awful. Yes to historic languages; no to forcibly separating peoples through choosing purposeful separation via language. |