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languages and diversity

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 12:47pm.

Point well taken.  If indeed different languages make possible to a significant extent different descriptions of worlds, then indeed we lose diversity/potentiality when we give priority to particular languages over other ones.  Ideally, there would be both common languages (to facilitate creation of common worlds) and a rich array of other languages, to broaden the potentiality of future worlds?

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