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		Gigachad on July 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Language Left Behind No not really. English has shifted so far that those works are hardly as understandable now as a modern translated work.

cyphar on July 8, 2022 [–]

That isn't the case for every language, I'm just trying to come up with an equivalent explanation of why wishing for languages to die out is a bad thing.

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