John McWhorter and I did a Bloggingheads on Friday that just went up.
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Jesus, talk about the most annoying, time-consuming, and self-indulgent format out there. Love your blog, etc, but this bloggingheads thing is ridiculous.
Megan and John follow up on the dying language discussion.
I think it's interesting how some time ago, the progressive idea was behind Esperanto, a universal langauge with rational rules. Now, more progressive thought is behind saving speakers for every language, trying to preserve the diversity, the Tower of Babel.