Adam Oleksik

There's also a really good book by Kyle Chayka called Filter World about how algorithms sort of dilute culture down.

I think that's very much happening.

And so that will be happening with language.

We have a language dying out every two weeks.

There's only 7,000 in the world.

Every two weeks one goes.

And this was happening before, I think.

The internet perhaps accelerated it, but globalization already kickstarted it by nationalizing and centralizing our languages.

We were on this path since like the 1850s.

But it's definitely happening even more with algorithms, which are more of this force for homogeneity because there's an expectation that users have of like, oh, I want you to be speaking in American English or in British English or whatever.

So that's like one effect that's certainly happening.

I do not think it's going to be happening in every sphere of your life, but it's going to be influencing you.

And that's really sad because with some of these dying languages are such incredible perspectives for looking at the world.

There are like these different frames.

I was just reading this book, Braiding Sweetgrass.

I highly recommend it.

There's this Potamotami word.

To be a Saturday.

So like, we don't have the verb idea of being a Saturday.

But I really like that that is a frame you can look at Saturdays through.