Re: International Recognition
Decades ago at an open day at Aberystwyth University I encountered groups of the local schoolkids (I was a PhD student there at the time). What they spoke was very interesting; their teachers always addressed them in Welsh and they understood this perfectly. In between themselves, they always spoke grammatically correct English.
That is the crux of the matter: languages are for talking to people with, not for distinguishing you from other people with. If a language does not allow communication, then it isn't actually doing what language is supposed to be doing. Thus all this government-sponsored life support for languages is quite likely a waste of time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
