I see nothing useful or charming about remaining monolingua… - H. Russell Bernard

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I see nothing useful or charming about remaining monolingual .. if that results in being shut out of the national economy.

H. Russell Bernard

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Harvey Russell Bernard (born 1940) is an American anthropologist and social scientist, known for his research on social network analysis, for his use of computers to preserve the cultural history of vanishing languages, and for his work on training young anthropologists.

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It is not necessary to argue that language diversity caused the evolutionary success of humans. We need only recognize that the knowledge generated by all those successfully adapting cultural groups over the millennia is stored in all those thousands of languages now spoken around the world.

As a university professor I sell what I know.

The extinction of language is nothing new...What is new today is the rate and extent of extinction of languages.

I see nothing useful or charming about remaining monolingual .. if that results in being shut out of the national economy. - H. Russell Bernard

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