pop! tech – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:29:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 David Harrison on the scarcity of language /College/translation/threepercent/2008/10/23/david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language/ /College/translation/threepercent/2008/10/23/david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:41:12 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2008/10/23/david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language/

There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world. This, argues linguist K David Harrison, represents the greatest repository of human knowledge ever assembled – but it’s rapidly eroding, and this will be terrible. We’re not only losing information, but we’re losing ways of understanding the world.

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