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To: Iscool
I'm all in favor of a real revival of ancient languages ---Hebrew Greek and Latin --- since there's so much there that's basic to who we are. Being advised to "let go of" your root languages is like being told to let go of your cellular organelles. It's the wrong advice because they're not "old and dead," they're old and basic to life.

What? "Let go of" mitochondria since we could have such nifty nanoengineering now from MIT? Permit me to think it would be a loss, for which the latest bio-nano-innovations would be no very adequate compensation.

Besides, English is already dated, on the wane. I think it may come down to everybody doing Christianity in Chinese. There's an idea.

68 posted on 09/03/2012 4:27:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He who does not have 3,000 years at his fingertips is living hand-to-mouth." -J Wolfgang von Goethe)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I think it may come down to everybody doing Christianity in Chinese.

Hope not...I can't even do the chopsticks let alone the language...

83 posted on 09/03/2012 12:09:00 PM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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