One of the highlights of today was a conversation that we had at work. I mean, it wasnʻt everyone speaking but a few people (whose names shall remain unsaid, because you know how that goes) where we were talking about the state of the Japanese language for a bit, and how much emphasis there seems to be on English here. However, it would seem that not everyone wants to learn English.
I donʻt suppose you need to know the details but the point that stuck out is that one of our co-workers said, "We canʻt lose our language, language is culture." Of course, Iʻve known that and so have many people I know for a long time but it made me think that this is really a problem everywhere!
And on that note, my hypothetical question to cyberspace is, what the hell happened to English? I mean, Iʻm not even going to pretend like I speak perfectly or that anyone in Hawaiʻi has a grasp on it in perfection but I will say that if everyone else is so concerned about their language, I wonder how people in England feel about these bagillion accents and dialects developing in their countries.
Just saying.
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