I can’t stand immigrants who come here from England, and after SEVEN GENERATIONS, still only speak English. Anglos need to assimilate and learn to hold a conversation in the local Indigenous language.
I can’t stand immigrants who come here from England, and after SEVEN GENERATIONS, still only speak English. Anglos need to assimilate and learn to hold a conversation in the local Indigenous language.
It seems like your fears are based in capitalism and then smeared over universal translators. There are thousands of unique languages. And people will learn the languages that allow them to converse with the most people. The only recourse left to people then is to pick a one (or, if they are lucky, a handful of) language(s) to learn. Without some universal translation, those fringe languages will be crushed and homogenized into the nearest/largest lingua franca because it’s economical. Or they will remain isolated and become more a scholastic toy than a living language.
This comment also assumes learning a language naturally will be…outlawed(?) once universal translators are on the scene. It’s very pessimistic in a way that is almost misanthropic. It presumes humans will use it only and precisely in the worst ways possible: to specifically refuse engagement with other cultures, to stunt their intellectual growth. When people already don’t engage with other cultures or seek true intellectual or even emotional growth, because of the strictures of daily life.