Part of me thinks I should stop looking at porn since one particularly irritating side effect of it is to remind me how lonely I am. Another part of me says fuck that.
I'm reading about language extinction on Wikipedia. I used to think there were somewhat more important factors than the existence of languages, because I consider mutual intelligibility to be fairly important. On the other hand, the extinction of languages would leave works written in those language completely incomprehensible for posterity. According to Wikipedia, linguists estimate that as many as 90% of the approximately 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world will have become extinct by 2050. Worse still is when you consider the absurdly authoritarian methods that are often used to drive languages out of existence. Languages often reflect completely different ways of thinking about the world; even languages derived from one another often diverge significantly. For instance, the word Geist in German can loosely be translated as spirit, but represents a lot more than that. Works rendered in translation lose a lot of their original meaning, simply because words between languages do not keep the same meaning. Words in one language often have different meanings from even their cognates in other languages.
I don't really know where I'm going with this. I'm tired. Probably heading off to bed.