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Old 06-16-2008, 07:45 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Gustavo Lucardi

More than 50% of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world may disappear. We must act now as a matter of urgency. How? By encouraging and developing language policies that enable each linguistic community to use its first language, or mother tongue, as widely and as often as possible, including in education.

Sounds very nice
-almost as nice as a world without polluting factories.-
And equally impractical !

When you want to make a living as a translator – your mother tongue NEEDS to be an important language !
“Wanted : Native speaker of target language, proficiency in source language
Too bad when your native language is not English/Spanish or French...

My mother tongue is Dutch, luckily I was a businessman
and never had to work as a translator,
that would have brought poverty for sure !

SORRY if this seems a bit harsh.
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