Some Languages are Just Not Good Enough

Ray Harlow

This myth deals with the survival rate of a language. Arguments against the survival are stated below:

• People often transfer their opinion of the people who would speak a certain language or dialect to the language or dialect itself
• Words are difficult to combine as it is has difficulties with evolving
• Technical terms are difficult to create, as their people have not gotten involved with that certain topic

Despite all these critics, even the “strong languages” would adopt words, without any hesitation. This is done by reason of making the context more understandable. Despite all the struggles, some languages are not good enough, as a result of not having the capacity of using it in science or diplomacy.

I do agree with his opinion. As proof of this, I would refer to the languages that have died out, for example, usage of runes, hieroglyphs and the Mayan and Aztec written language. These languages died out as a result of other languages taking over the native language or either the population of the language disappearing. While some languages such as Latin would still survive thanks to science and religion. These languages cannot fully evolve due to the lack of the language speaker. This would make the language insufficient for many technical purposes.