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发表于 2003-6-25 06:17:09 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Issue 13 "Many of the world’s lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. The governments of countries in which these languages are spoken should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct."

Disagree.
1, the great variety of languages seriously hampers the communications of civilizations and produces numerous misunderstandings or even hatreds between nations.
2, learning foreign languages imposes heavy burdens or costs on people.
3, any measures will cost much and achieve little.

Manchu, a great nation who had successfully ruled China for nearly three hundred years during the 17- 20th century, now is confronted with her most forbidding crisis in history, for her national language is irresistibly stepping into extinction with her accelerating rate of assimilation into Chinese. The undergoing of Manchu is just an epitome of those nations whose languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. According to statistics from the U.N.E.S.C.O., there are at least one thousand lesser-known languages being extinct every year in the world. This fact shocks many people. “What are being lost are not only languages but cultures, histories and civilizations behind them”, once and again, cultural protectors appear for strong measures from governments to preserve these rare languages. I really sympathize with them and the unfortunate of these languages. But, emotion cannot substitute for rationality. Even if the measures hoped were undertaken, what on earth would they do matter in front of the overwhelming power of modern technological advance, intense competition and irresistible globalization. Obviously, a realistic and reasonable attitude is more advisable to this problem. （这段太长，可我觉得删掉会影响全文的完整性，还是舍不得呀！）

Although every nation is proud of her language and correspondingly her culture, history, civilization, too many languages indeed play a negative role in communications of different civilizations and thus do harm to their understanding, trade, friendship and learning each other. In history, what hampered communications of civilizations were not only geological distances but also the great variety of languages. There were numerous examples that misunderstanding caused by languages resulted in hostility or even fight between people or nations in both ancient and modern societies. On the contrary, the same language means similar customs, moral, norms, and values, which will vividly reduce unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts; also the same language makes convenient the interchanging of information, which will considerately promote the progress in science, technology, culture and accordingly the whole civilization. To some extent, the modern society advances much more quickly than before in that fewer languages today make communications far more easy and efficient than before. Therefore, the extinction of certain languages means a pity for corresponding nations, but on the other hand it actually does a benefit to all the people, including those of that nations.

Another negative effect of too many languages is that it imposes considerate burdens, mental or material, to both governments and the individuals. Take China for example, there are at least 55 minorities, most having their own languages. To provide them with elementary education, Chinese government has had to allocate a great deal of resources for translating textbooks into their languages and training teachers. But for those few students of every minority who hope to receive college educations, Chinese government impossibly translates all they want to learn. The only way for them is to spend several years in learning Chinese, the hardest language in the world. Many of them who I know, say that in order to save time and keep competent , they would like to speak Chinese in their childhoods rather than their native languages. This situation is similar to that of most other Chinese students, who have to spend almost one-third of their time in studying English since middle school.

It is easy to make some appeals for protecting lesser-spoken languages. But we should seriously weigh the benefit of these actions against the lost from them. In the long run, most languages now existing in the world will irresistibly become extinct with the deepening of globalization and the advance of civilization, and nobody can prevent this tendency. When making these appeals, the cultural protectors maybe are out of good hearts. But the problem is that who would appreciate and stand up them? the minorities? The governments? The answer will become quite clear as soon as we investigate the thoughts in the Manchu, among whom almost nobody are willing or able to speak their native language except several hundred old people.

As a conclusion, I restate that when something must be given up, I would unhesitatingly choose the ones that could guarantee the long-term and wholesome benefits of human beings at the cost of the others, that is , the lesser-spoken languages.  (688 words)

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沙发

发表于 2003-6-25 18:55:04 |只看该作者

还没人看？！严重郁闷！！

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板凳

发表于 2003-6-25 19:48:21 |只看该作者

请参考语言学上的问题

建议从三个方面论述：dead-level abstracting, undue identification, two-value evaluation,

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发表于 2003-6-25 23:41:51 |只看该作者

多谢law 的建议，不过我没看明白什么意思。能否多说两句！

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发表于 2003-6-26 04:42:07 |只看该作者

第一段如果作为开头实在太长了。你可以简化描写，不要做那么多修饰。简单地由满族的例子推出你的论点。
罗嗦的毛病改了不少。不过因为个人对此问题观点与你相反，不敢苟同。我也不按照指出逻辑错误那样挑你的毛病了，毕竟思考的方式和角度不一样。呵呵。你已经很自然地用正反两面来论述，就很好了。自己觉得有道理就成。

附上我曾经写的分析：DISAGREE
语言是了解一种文化所必须的工具，其中也反映了历史、民族文化等，所以对其保护不仅仅是一个国家的事务，也应该是一个世界性的事物。（所以就有UNESCO的存在。古埃及的象形文字就是由于被僧侣垄断以致于最终失传。再比如最早出现的文字之一的两河流域的楔形文字，在被人遗忘并失传了相当长的时间后，是被一个意大利商人发现后拓下带回欧洲进行研究，接着就有丹麦、德国、法国等专业或业余语言文字工作者投入破译的工作，最终成功。——这里我涉及了一些具体的例子，希望对大家有用，但也希望不要局限于此，毕竟我个人的思考是有限的）
语言也是用来交流的工具，只有更多更广泛的人群使用，才能使之得以长久存在并发扬。如果仅将其局限于一个国家中，一旦因为战争或自然灾害或其他不可知原因使该国毁灭，其语言文化也随之消失，这将也是人类文明的灾难。

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发表于 2003-6-26 05:38:31 |只看该作者

gteryy斑竹在百忙中还抽出时间看我们的作文，真是令人感动！致敬！

关于观点，我是学经济学的，喜欢rationality, utility, efficiency，难免有些观点与其他人不一样！

虽然我热爱中国文字，中国文化。但如果将来世界只采用一种语言，比如说英语甚至越南、蒙古、尼加拉瓜语等等，我都会毫不犹豫的支持。因为这会降低交易成本，提高效率，促进经济发展，增进人民福利。失去的只是过去的几千年的文化，但得到的将是未来无数年的实实在在的利益。熟重熟轻，老百姓会用脚投票！
扯得太远了！不说了！

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