Will English kill off all other languages eventually?

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Posted by Vector A on Apr-28-2012 23:08:

Humanities are useless to those who are uninterested in them.

Posted by Lira on Apr-30-2012 00:50:

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Originally posted by Meat187
I've had blisters that were more useful than that research.

Admit it, Lira. The humanities as a whole are a pyramid scheme. People study something lame, often pay their PhD themselves, and in the end the one thing they can do with it is stay in university and teach the very same thing to younger students.

Not at all. Firstly, the government pays me to study (I still can't understand why in the US it's the other way around), and the knowledge produced often contributes to areas outside the humanities. For example, Chomsky's formal grammar made several contributions to computer science - so much so that a friend of mine, a computer engineer, said he had one discipline in which he had to read Noam's books, so it's not just an indirect contribution.

As for the person who inspired Chomsky, he was a philosopher whose contributions in the human sciences I'm sure I don't need to enumerate (Descartes).

Posted by Vector A on Apr-30-2012 01:08:

So many languages. so little time.

Posted by Lira on Apr-30-2012 01:26:

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Originally posted by Vector A
So many languages. so little time.

Not really, you're always quitting before you even start studying them... so it's possible to quit your studies in all catalogued languaged during your lifetime

(Jokes aside, study all the languages! )

Posted by Vector A on Apr-30-2012 01:30:

Hey, I haven't quit just yet.

Posted by Lira on Apr-30-2012 01:40:

And don't you dare quitting!

Posted by Meat187 on Apr-30-2012 14:26:

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Originally posted by Lira
Not at all. Firstly, the government pays me to study (I still can't understand why in the US it's the other way around), and the knowledge produced often contributes to areas outside the humanities. For example, Chomsky's formal grammar made several contributions to computer science - so much so that a friend of mine, a computer engineer, said he had one discipline in which he had to read Noam's books, so it's not just an indirect contribution.

As for the person who inspired Chomsky, he was a philosopher whose contributions in the human sciences I'm sure I don't need to enumerate (Descartes).

Err, you do know that I'm saying stuff like that to provoke you and don't mean it, right? I'm asking cause you feel the ridiculous need to correct every single silly claim I make.

That being said, for every single linguist who has actually contributed to a useful field there's surely a dozen who spend their life teaching it. Same for other humanities. So my claim that they are a pyramid scheme still stands.

Posted by Lira on Apr-30-2012 14:39:

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Originally posted by Meat187
Err, you do know that I'm saying stuff like that to provoke you and don't mean it, right? I'm asking cause you feel the ridiculous need to correct every single silly claim I make.

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Oh for god's sake, Lira. Please stop trolling me by always taking the opposite opinion, no matter how stupid and ridiculous it is. It's getting childish, really.
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Originally posted by Lira
Pot, kettle?

What makes you think I'm not having fun with this as well?

Actually, I'm about to post a thread about your sly tactics... you almost got me killed the day before yesterday

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Originally posted by Meat187 That being said, for every single linguist who has actually contributed to a useful field there's surely a dozen who spend their life teaching it. Same for other humanities. So my claim that they are a pyramid scheme still stands.

Now that's something I must agree with

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Apr-30-2012 14:44:

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you almost got me killed the day before yesterday

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you almost got me killed

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almost

Failure.

Posted by Meat187 on Apr-30-2012 18:32:

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you almost got me killed the day before yesterday

I warned you about driving while listening to Para Para! Your own fault if you don't listen.

Posted by Lira on Apr-30-2012 18:57:

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Originally posted by Meat187
I warned you about driving while listening to Para Para! Your own fault if you don't listen.

No, I'm talking about these sneak Scheiß Katzen attacks you're organising!

Posted by Meat187 on May-03-2012 08:59:

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Originally posted by Lira
No, I'm talking about these sneak Scheiß Katzen attacks you're organising!

I'm not sure I should ask this, but: what???

Posted by Blake on May-03-2012 09:24:

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Originally posted by Meat187
I warned you about driving while listening to Para Para!

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