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Nonesense. Ebonics is a made up term by some people in Oakland, California in the mid 90's. Ebonics is little more than Southern American English with Black American idiosyncrasies.
Exactly. Which is precisely how every one of the world's diverse languages began their evolution. Using pre-existing words in a pre-existing language, to meet the needs of a culture that has different linguistic needs to describe phenomena unique to or emphasized within their culture.
This question make me think about the process that is going on here and in a lot of other countries, in which the national language is replacing the dialects and the regional languages. What I'm noticing is that all the histories, songs, proverbs, literature and a lot of other aspect of traditions and culture are rapidly disappearing together with the speaker of those minor languages. Most of times they aren't translated in the new language, but they are just forgotten and replaced.
In my opinion the same would happen if we tried to use an only world language for everyone. So all the other languages would become death languages whose culture, traditions, literature and so on would be studied only by a few academics. I don't know how this vision sounds to you, but for me it sounds really sad.
This question make me think about the process that is going on here and in a lot of other countries, in which the national language is replacing the dialects and the regional languages. What I'm noticing is that all the histories, songs, proverbs, literature and a lot of other aspect of traditions and culture are rapidly disappearing together with the speaker of those minor languages. Most of times they aren't translated in the new language, but they are just forgotten and replaced.
In my opinion the same would happen if we tried to use an only world language for everyone. So all the other languages would become death languages whose culture, traditions, literature and so on would be studied only by a few academics. I don't know how this vision sounds to you, but for me it sounds really sad.
While I don't support a single language, too many languages are not a good thing in practice. For example, do you really want every US state to have its own language that is not intelligible from one another?
Countries that implement one standard language because they have to. It doesn't have to mean the death of local dialects.
How does it matter which language it is, English or Icelandic or Thai, since everyone speaks the same language? You would be speaking that particular language already anyway.
it's fun communicating with other people, if it was simple to communicate with everybody in the world that would be awesome
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