What is Language For?

Robert Bringhurst, Poet, Typographer and Linguist. As the list of endangered languages grows, and endangered ones die off, linguists and native speakers have begun to collaborate on language revitalization and resuscitation, bringing genuinely dormant languages back to a new life in a new world.  But is language independent of its environment?  Is it the same spoken indoors and out of doors?  In the interest of healthy human cultures, what can language do for us, and what can we do for our language?

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Education

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• umbctube
• UMBC
• language
• humanities
• human culture

[jsens3]

This is an academic lecture?Total waste of time.

[Elidoransgar]

Great news everybody. I've just created a device that lets you hear Mr. Bringhurst in the voice of Johnny Depp imitating Hunter Thompson.

I expected this to be boring, but his thoughts are as incisive as his delivery is wooden. A great mind, and a role model to me for his impeccable typography. I would download his brain if I could.

[VTKlutZ]

Nevermind sounds like a car muffler who learned to convey langauge

[VTKlutZ]

@orestispal probably nerves...

[orestispal]

there seems to be sth wrong both with the chair and the speaker... >: ))