“It’s hard to use a word like preserve with a language,” said Robert Holman, who teaches at Columbia and New York Universities ... “It’s not like putting jelly in a jar. A language is used. Language is consciousness. Everybody wants to speak English, but those lullabies that allow you to go to sleep at night and dream — that’s what we’re talking about.”
(c: ealtosaar, nyt)
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