issue13 写了个大逆不道的文章

paburawUID: 2204657

TOPIC: ISSUE13 - "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."
WORDS: 525          TIME: 上午 12:45:00          DATE: 2006-6-30
POSITION: 基本上不支持
1 保护语言花的代价太大，而且讲少数语言的人群往往是弱势人群他们还有更多的社会问题等着政府去解决
2 随着全球化的发展趋势，不同语言构成可一种障碍
3 尽管我们在情感上不愿意一种语言消失，但是似乎这种趋势很难逆转，而且考虑到现在社会各种文化相互渗透，可能一种文化表面上消失了，但是由于已经渗透到其他文化中，也算是另一种保留了，例如英语中就有很多来的词语
Is it necessary for the government of countries where have world’s lesser-known language which are spoken by fewer and fewer people should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct since many of them are being lost? Here, the speaker suggest that it is the government’s duty in its efforts to protect those lesser-known languages, nevertheless, from the a practical point of view, considering the trends of the globalization and internationalization of the world, any government should devote its finite resources and time elsewhere, and leave it to let the people themselves to take whatever steps to preserve their own languages, languages which concern the existence of their culture.

First of all, any government makes their efforts to protect a language from extinction at the expenses of large amounts of resources and time. Drawing the public’s attention to these languages, the government should propaganda the importance of each language regardless the number of people who use it and its practical values, language should be regarded as an indispensable part of culture to be preserved.  In addition, to establish a major contributing primarily to research a certain language seems to be an effective measure to preserve money. According to the study by language experts, unless there are more than 100,000 people who speak a language, it is hard to preserve naturally. If so, the most natural and effective to preserve a language appears to thrive those groups speaking certain language. Generally, those groups are less-developed, living a lower standard of life than the average people. In their community, several more pressing social problems, such as hunger, homelessness, disease and so much, more need public attentions and then are solved. No one would think seriously whether or not government should solve these problems first, if the existence of a group is at stake, how could they think about preserving their language?

In the second place, considering the rapid development of globalization and internationalization all of the world, people have become more awareness that cross-cultural communication is of increasing importance. Language barriers may set obstacles cross-cultural communication, which in turn impede the international commerce and trade. Especially considering that the development of information technology, which make possible the universal accessible to information, and that English is generally accepted as official language in the internet, if you do not understand English, how can you use these information to keep pace with information era? English has become current most popular courses in some private education institutions, indicating that speaking fluent English is already becoming an inevitable ability for a person to find a better job. Take it to an easy example, the case of an American Indian who can say, except his native language, no any other language, there is no denying the fact that it is hard for him to survive in the modern society. How does he communicate with others? How about using body language? In fact, nowadays, many American Indians can speak fluent English, which help them live harmony with other people from different places who also speak English in America.

It is an appeal to emotion than logic to view that government should contribute to preserve the language spoken by less people. The extinction of language happen time and again in the course of the history of man. Admittedly, the disappearance of a language means that the extinction of culture which rely on the word of mouth to pass along from one generation to the next. Ideally, in a democratic country, everyone has right to say his or her own language. Each language is an indispensable part of culture. Nevertheless, the realistic situation is that cultural identity yields to the more practical consideration of day-to-day life in a global society. Addition, as the communication among different culture, the cultural interaction has become more frequent, mixing together, even create new, more affluent one. Apparently, this kind of language seems to extinct, in fact, embodying into other culture. Only the bonds of culture are vague than before. English, for example, has many loanwords from other language, such as French, Spanish and so forth.

In the final analysis, from the reason I discussed above, although we do not want a language to disappear in the course of history of human existence, the government should leave this problem to the people themselves to decide whether they should make efforts to preserve their own language, the government should use its resources to more pressing social problems.

yogurt4UID: 198389

倒没有什么大逆不道的地方,issue本来就没有绝对的对错
看提纲第三点似乎有点乱
趋势不可逆转,和后面说的在另一种语言中存活
究竟是该保护还是不该保护?
而且渗透算是一种存留么?想写清楚有点麻烦.

janezkkUID: 2209513

Is it necessary for the government of countries where have world’s lesser-known languages which are spoken by fewer and fewer people should act to prevent such languages from becoming extinct since many of them are being lost? (看得晕掉了，这么长才一句话。首先，where指代countries是不恰当，尽管你想表达在哪里，但这里只能用which，并且where不可以做从句主语。第二，这句话是从句套从句，似乎没这个必要，显得结构负重不堪了。第三，已经用了it is necessary for government to do 这一句式了，就没有必要再用should了。)Here, the speaker suggests that it is the government’s duty in its efforts to protect those lesser-known languages, nevertheless, from a practical point of view, considering the trends of the globalization and internationalization of the world, any government should devote its finite resources and time elsewhere, and leave it to let the people themselves take whatever steps to preserve their own languages, languages which concern the existence of their culture.(唯一的问题还是句子过长了，又是这么一大段。建议今后能长短句结合噢)

First of all, any government makes their efforts to protect a language from extinction at the expenses of large amounts of resources and time. Drawing the public’s attention to these languages, the government should propaganda （查了一下，好像只用作名词啊）the importance of each language regardless （of） the number of people who use it and its practical values。 Language should be regarded as an indispensable part of culture to be preserved.  In addition, to establish a major contributing （应该是contribution吧，而且动词用establish不恰当，可以直接用contribute to）primarily to （这里的to词性是介词，后面应该跟名词或者动名词，而research用在这里显然是动词）research a certain language seems to be an effective measure to preserve money. According to the study by （of）language experts, unless there are more than 100,000 people who speak a language, it is hard to preserve naturally. If so, the most natural and effective  (way) to preserve a language appears to thrive those groups speaking certain language. Generally, those groups are less-developed, living a lower standard of life than the average people do. In their community, several more pressing social problems, such as hunger, homelessness, disease and so much, more need public attentions and then are solved.(这里的more pressing 和more need里的两个more都用得有点牵强。如果要用，也是need more public attention) No one would think seriously whether or not government should solve these problems first, if the existence of a group is at stake, how could they think about preserving their language? (决定是否保护前－了解该语言的使用人数和实际价值－通过语言研究－研究发现，使用该类语言的人群特性－得出结论)

In the second place, considering the rapid development of globalization and internationalization all of the world, people have become more awareness （aware）that cross-cultural communication is of increasing importance.(不错！) Language barriers may set obstacles （缺少介词，比如in）cross-cultural communication, which in turn impede the international commerce and trade. Especially considering the development of information technology, which make possible the universal accessible ( access) to information, and that English is generally accepted as official language in the internet, if you do not understand English, how can you use these information to keep pace with information era? English has become currently most popular courses in some private education institutions, indicating that speaking fluent English is already becoming an inevitable ability for a person to find a better job. Take it to an easy example, the case of an American Indian who can say, except his native language, no any other language, (这句话结构很奇怪，是否可考虑换种方式表达。比如He insists on not speaking any other languages except his mother tongue.)there is no denying the fact that it is hard for him to survive in the modern society. How does he communicate with others? How about using body language? In fact, nowadays, many American Indians can speak fluent English, which help them live in harmony with other people from different places who also speak English in America. （语言障碍）

It is an appeal to emotion than logic to view that government should contribute to preserve the language spoken by less （fewer）people. The extinction of language happens time and again (time and again是什么意思？again and again?)in the course(个人认为历史进程用process是不是更好呢，我不太清楚course作为进程时的用法) of the history of man. Admittedly, the disappearance of a language means that the extinction of culture which rely on the words of mouth to pass along from one generation to the next. Ideally, in a democratic country, everyone has right to say his or her own language. Each language is an indispensable part of culture. Nevertheless, the realistic situation is that cultural identity yields to the more practical consideration of day-to-day life in a global society.（这句写得很不错，赞） In addition, as the communication among different cultures, the cultural interaction has become more frequent, mixing together, even create new, more affluent one. Apparently, this kind of language seems to be extinct, in fact, embodying （这里语言是被包含到其他文化中，而且embody一般用作及物动词。可以用involving）into another culture. Only the bonds of culture are vague than before. English, for example, has many loanwords from other languages, such as French, Spanish and so forth.（少数语言消失，却又融入到另一种文化中而继续存在。怎么解释？曾经使用该种语言的人继续生存，开始使用新的语言，接受新的文化。但少数语言本身的消失是不可否认的，怎么个融入法呢？即使英语吸收了少量舶来词，但将其理解为少数语种的融入似乎还不够有说服力）

In the final analysis, from the reason I discussed above, although we do not want a language to disappear in the course of history of human existence, the government should leave this problem to the people themselves to decide whether they should make efforts to preserve their own language。 The government should use its resources to more pressing social problems.