http://semantics-online.org/2003/05/are-languages-replaceable A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:14:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://semantics-online.org/2003/05/are-languages-replaceable#comment-9 john s bolton Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:21:49 +0000 http://www.semantics-online.org/wp/uncategorized/2003/05/are-languages-replaceable#comment-9 <p>Setting up diversity of languages and species as parallel values has a bad precedent in the history of national socialism. W. Schoenichen detailed the official plans of the dictatorship for the administration of the world in a pro-diversity manner by establishing reserves which were to conserve rare languages and species at the same time. This plan is described in Proctor's 'nazi war on cancer' which your library may have. The raising of diversity to the status of an ultimate value in general will have such a tendency today as it did in Germany at that time. Therefore, I say the valorization of diversity now must be questioned (as at the undersigned's site)...</p> Setting up diversity of languages and species as parallel values has a bad precedent in the history of national socialism. W. Schoenichen detailed the official plans of the dictatorship for the administration of the world in a pro-diversity manner by establishing reserves which were to conserve rare languages and species at the same time. This plan is described in Proctor’s ‘nazi war on cancer’ which your library may have. The raising of diversity to the status of an ultimate value in general will have such a tendency today as it did in Germany at that time. Therefore, I say the valorization of diversity now must be questioned (as at the undersigned’s site)…

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