So just imagine 90% of languages will be extinct probably in my lifetime. It's a...
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William Jirsa:
So just imagine 90% of languages will be extinct probably in my lifetime. It's a catastrophic impact to an ecosystem to talk about that kind of extinction. Culturally we're talking about the same thing, I mean, you know, what if you lost all of Russian literature, or something like that. If you took all of the Slavic languages and they just went away. No more Tolstoy
So just imagine 90% of languages will be extinct probably in my lifetime. It's a catastrophic impact to an ecosystem to talk about that kind of extinction. Culturally we're talking about the same thing, I mean, you know, what if you lost all of Russian literature, or something like that. If you took all of the Slavic languages and they just went away. No more Tolstoy
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So just imagine you know 90
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of languages will be extinct probably in my lifetime
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It's a catastrophic impact
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to an ecosystem to talk about that kind of extinction
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Culturally we're talking about the same thing I mean
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you know what if you lost all of
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Russian literature or something like that or Russian you know If you took all of the
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Slavic languages and just they went away you know and no more Tolstoy
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Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
