Post #4480958
2026-08-09 08:44 UTC
apparently some languages die out because their speakers made "calculations". these aren't real choices. they are not free nor are they consensual. speakers of big languages — french, german, spanish, russian, mandarin, english, hindi and others — do not have to make them. i didn't choose to not be fluent in kazakh. my parents didn't choose. just like my elders ages ago didn't choose to be displaced. i didn't ask for this.
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@mynameistillian@plush.city 2026-08-09 08:47
apparently we should disregard all the studies that tell that people who speak their minority languages are on average happier and this is down to some mythical "social and economic factor" as if that's not connected with language at all