At the past century, around 400 languages have gone extinct, about one every three months, and most linguists estimate that half of remaining languages will be gone by the end of this century. Google uses only 30 different languages in its built-in search engine which covers only 50% of the world’s spoken languages. Should we preserve language diversity or we are on a path of becoming a monolingual species? Some people claim that the world will be a better place to live with fewer languages. But the counter argument is abundant. We should protect language diversity because languages convey human heritage, several cultural aspects and most importantly include an accumulated body of knowledge.
Languages convey the conduits of human heritages. It is a well-known fact in anthropology and linguistics that writing is a recent development in our history. Most of the masterpieces such as Iliad or Odyssey were an oral story before they were recorded in written documents. Moreover, the language itself is the only way to convey a community’s songs, stories, and poems. This worthy heritage usually exhibits morals, traditions of the community.
On a cultural level, the language includes a different pathway of thought, framework of thinking, and solving problems. They use different words and expressions for transferring an emotion or describing a situation that might have a different meaning when they have been translated into another language. For example, if we translate the Japanese expression of “Hello” into English it would be “How are you today?” which has different meaning far from to what we have expected. It clearly shows that the expression in a language conveys a culture, a way of interpreting human behavior emotion which is not conveyed by the same word or an expression in English.
Languages can provide a wealth of wisdom for humanity. They contain a precious accumulated body of knowledge, including about geography, botany, zoology, astronomy, pharmacology, meteorology and more. The language was born thousands of years before has coined a range of specific names and expressions to define objects along with emotions. Consider an endangered language “Cherokee”, a widespread language among American Indigenous people up to the eighteenth century, the language has words for every berry, bush or stem in the region. Every language has got names for any object by which the potential properties of an issue clearly have been defined. In the case of berries, a Cherokee name patently identifies the properties that a berry might have whether it is edible, poisonous or have medical values.
To recap, the language diversity should be preserved. The languages contain human heritage which cannot be excluded from our history. Furthermore, they define our cultural aspects, and more importantly, they are ripped with a possibility of being amassed by a massive body of knowledge.
- TPO-28 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than were parents in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- The rules that today s societies expect young people to follow and obey are too strict 93
- Many museums charge for admission while others are free.Do you think the advantages of charging people for admission to museums outweigh the disadvantage? 84
- Tpo 22 integrated writing 73
- TPO-15 - Integrated Writing Task The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insec 80
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, moreover, so, well, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2503.0 1615.20841683 155% => OK
No of words: 462.0 315.596192385 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41774891775 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09192220897 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 176.041082164 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541125541126 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 794.7 506.74238477 157% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 9.0 2.52805611222 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 16.0721442886 149% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.16721398 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.291666667 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.58333333333 7.06120827912 37% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 3.4128256513 322% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240054432497 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0693119612501 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590304755333 0.0667982634062 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134288637802 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.076833240086 0.056905535591 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 78.4519038076 175% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.