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Fleming
on Language
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Annie
Higgins •
6 February 2004
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Dear
Blanket,
Thank you for Sean
Fleming's thoughtful essay on language, its uses
and abilities to bring people together, rather than
divide. Language is consensus, after all.
He also reminds me of similarities I have seen between
modern Hebrew and Palestinian dialect, not Lebanese
or Egyptian, but little oddities in Palestinian that
show up in modern Hebrew, a simplified language which
otherwise dispensed with many of the complexities
of centuries-older Hebrew.
I also appreciate this thought:
People who devote their time to learning a minority
language are taking a stand in a world which threatens
diversity.
Thank you!
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