Post by bluesron on Apr 16, 2007 11:18:34 GMT -5
...to me anyway.
Director Werner Herzog in this month's "What I've Learned" section of Esquire magazine..
"We are over-concerned with the well-being of whales, panda bears, and tree frogs. But cultures are dying with incredible speed. There are over six thousand languages still alive, many of them spoken by very few speakers. By the end of the century there may be only 10 percent left. I met an aborigine in Austrailia who was eighty years old and the only speaker of his language. He was considered mute because he had nobody left to talk to. He is certainly dead now."
Director Werner Herzog in this month's "What I've Learned" section of Esquire magazine..
"We are over-concerned with the well-being of whales, panda bears, and tree frogs. But cultures are dying with incredible speed. There are over six thousand languages still alive, many of them spoken by very few speakers. By the end of the century there may be only 10 percent left. I met an aborigine in Austrailia who was eighty years old and the only speaker of his language. He was considered mute because he had nobody left to talk to. He is certainly dead now."
