Have you ever heard someone say German is a Nazi language? How about “Arabic is a terrorist language” or “Afrikaans is racist?”
Well, languages cannot be evil. Only people and policies and behaviors can be evil. Besides, it’s really hypocritical for English speakers to put other languages into negative categories because of their associations with racism, etc. Look at the history of what English speakers have done to speakers of other languages, and how many languages have been wiped out or almost wiped out in favor English-onlyism:
Brythonic languages
Goidelic languages
Native American languages
Native Australian languages
Cajun French
So, with a record like that, in addition to a record of British colonialism, slavery, genocide, etc. we don’t have any room to talk about how evil other languages are. Besides, as my username indicates, I like foreign languages.
And I’m just sayin’ that I bet I’m not the only person who’s never heard the words Brythonic or Goidelic before.
I would have guessed that a brython is one of those weird particles in quantum physics. And Goidelic sounds like it should be a mathematical term.
I don’t hang out here in the Pit very often, because I’m such a polite, gentle soul.
So I suppose it’s appropriate that on my rare visit here, I learn something new. Hey, it’s better than insulting people.
Seriously I have never heard anyone, ever, claim or imply a language is, in anyway evil.
So, how’s about an example? If it’s a thing, I want to know about it, and if it’s a thing it should be demonstrable, I should think. So where? Show us where this is being done, by whom, how often, etc. Show us an example in print, in media, …something.
Persian is larcenous.
Serbo-Croatian is lazy.
Xhosa always takes the last cup of coffee and never makes a new pot.
Catalan costs too much unless you get it on sale.
Coptic killed my pa.
Haitian Creole thinks it’s all that.
Hindi is only fit for ordering fast food.
Hawaiian ate my aina kakahiaka.
Cree wants to boogie woogie all night long.
Khmer? Don’t even talk to me about Khmer!
Well, I don’t know about evil, but there’s certainly plenty of people who will wonder how anyone could say “I love you” in german because everything sounds so angry, or will ardently explain to you that spanish speakers lack personal responsibility because “la ventana se rompió” translates literally into english as “the window broke itself”.
This is a rather feeble Pitting for feeble cause. To get soundly Pitted by orthodox linguists, try suggesting that some languages are less efficacious for human discourse than others! :eek:
The suggestion that German is harsh or militaristic compared with French the language of love reminded me of this scene from the greatest movie ever made.
But how many Dopers were aware of what the following words mean?
[QUOTE=La Marseillaise]
Marchons … Qu’un sang impur abreuve nos sillons !
[/QUOTE]
