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English as the ruling language. Should German not be treated like Latin... Oh you sweet child of idiocracy. The Germans may have once thought along these lines. It did not end quite as expected.

The Germans still do TBF sadly

Old habits are hard to kick.

Notice the example also lists other high prestige languages as being irrelevant and so through not even mentioning them other lesser important to the AI bro languages* don't even exist. It's not a coincidence it's French and German being compared to Sanskrit and Latin.

* Ones much more likely to be spoken by people alongside English too, like Urdu in UK.

The insistence memorization is obsolete is hilarious too — but also obviously incredibly pedagogically dangerous. Imagine what that would mean in practice. Nobody can learn to read anymore since the alphabet needs to be memorised. We can't start debating what each letter is or guessing.

He's a notorious 'contrarian' right wing fuckwit, no more than a sad and tiresome troll at this point. 'The exercise of sound judgment' from the bloke who spent decades pushing for brexit with no plan is quite something.

I've read this ten times, and I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it. Outside of the baffling logic of identifying fallacies with no expertise, does this guy have zero experience with other languages? Even if he's monolingual, never listened to multilingual people translanguage and wonder why?

Oh, it's why we need dialectical materialism, he's multilingual and rich.

> Hannan was born [...] in Lima, Peru. His mother was a Scot who had been working in the British Embassy in Lima. His father, whose family origins are Ulster Catholic [...] served in Italy during the Second World War[.] He was educated at Winchester House School and Marlborough College.

qu'est-ce qu'il propose vraiment ? ceux qui parlent français ou allemand depuis leurs naissances, ils doivent en quitter ? sépare-on les enfants et leurs parents francophones ? comment exactement va le ki éxtinguer tous les autres langues ?

this fucking guy himself speaks french

A few years ago I was discussing with three or four colleagues (all Italians, and all CS, needless to say) and they were telling me how one of the goals of the EU is or should be replacing all national languages with English, and that the preservation of endangered languages is a waste of money.

That's so Italian fascist. How long did it take to create Italian? Oh, no, not one of the last standardised languages of the European powers in the 20th century. 🫠

Except that literal fascists cared (in their own twisted way, of course) or pretended to care about the Italian language and Italian culture.

This feels so much like eugenics too: we don't need that, let's eradicate it. With the naturalistic fallacy of "these traits are destined to slowly disappear, we're just speeding up what nature wants". Same attitude and argument, barely transposed to "cultural diversity" and "progress/technology".