Evolution

Today at lunch with my advisor, we started talking about the number of languages in India, and how some of the languages are becoming extinct. My advisor mentioned that he'd read in some article that many languages were dying because young kids influenced by hollywood movies and pop songs preferred to speak and learn English rather than their native tongue.

At that time, we agreed that this was a sad state of affairs since many rich and historic languages may be going into oblivion. But later when my mind drifted back to the same topic, I realized that eventually the entire world would have to speak a common language (assuming we are all going to be a united human race in the future). And naturally, according to the law of evolution, the fittest language would survive while many of the weaker languages would become extinct.

So shouldn't we really be happy that many languages are disappearing and we are moving towards a common language?

p.s. Wifey and myself had a very pleasant lunch with my advisor, another professor and a couple of other students who graduated recently. At the lunch, we were also presented with 'awards of recognition.'