Steve Walkerの『Save Languages, Save Earth!』

   Steve Walkerの『Save Languages, Save Earth!』

言語保護活動家・環境保護家であるスティーブウォーカーによる活動日記。

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言語保護活動家・環境保護家としての活動を綴った日記


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© 2013 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises.

 

Dear Fellow Earthlings,
 

   In this installment I offer a solution to "language pollution". All of the native languages and dialects of Earth are being thrown into a state of turmoil due to globalization and the blurring of diversity-versus-homogeneity that ensues from it. Also, through Jingles training (and indeed Jingles education!) there is a way to open up ourselves to new ideas -- but without the necessity of depriving ourselves of the cultural bulwarks whose greatest support are the languages and dialects that comprise each of them.

 

   As for AI: kit is irrelevant and should be used for projects other than language learning/teaching/preservation. I concede that (since it behooves one never to say "never") various case-by-case instances wherein AI succor might be carefully managed to advance efforts to learn/teach/preserve dialects or languages do loom within the realm of probability. But except for these rare instances, the concept of the prime directive must be maintained at all costs.(See the following installments:   316, 317, 318, 369, 473, 561, 628.)

 

   Rather than "attacking" any person trying to survive in the current state of things on planet Earth, I eschew such terms as "the masses" or "sheep".  Instead, I  refer to all of my fellow humans as "fellow Earthlings" with goals and aspirations similar to my own: to survive, to live, to contribute, to thrive, to belong. Key to these concepts is language.  

 

   To this end, I recommend Jingles systems for all languages and dialects. I will be happy to help anyone who wishes to learn, teach, preserve the community phonome of kerm native dialect(s)/language(s).

 

    Language in the beginning developed when two parties agreed to agree on the meaning of a particular gesture or combination of gestures for denoting a specific object or concept or notion. This agreement by those two parties in the distant past marked the formation of a "community phonome". That melding of two, biological, "individual", genomes into a "community phonome" (that is, a "common language" and/or "common dialect") is what has made it possible for humans to organize in such as way as to "develop" the world (for better as well as for worse). See Installment 628, Entreaty 2.

 

    Now that it has become clear that we must right the wrongs we have perpetrated, it is time to Jingle!! By defining and protecting the phonomes of English and all of the other languages/dialects -- as opposed to allowing for an unmanageable array of 8 billion different "custom-built allophonomes" -- with the communication breakdown that would occur when any two of them were to be juxtaposed haphazardly -- clearer communication among all humans (and eventually of all species) can be engendered. In the final analysis, our phonomes are the results of biological forces, while any "worldwide web of languages" would be a plasticized, digitalized, amalgam of AI-based non-human communication pseudoallophonomes.

 

   To put it into practical terms, when, say, a native speaker of Finnish and one of Bengali, employ English to discuss the status of a current war in progress, their communication will be enhanced through the employment of the medium of an actual HI (human intelligence) language. We owe it to ourselves as humans to use Finnish,  Bengali,  American English, England English, Irish Gaelic -- in short, any and all flesh and blood, muscle and bone, culurally-derived language(s)! We are already human -- and do NOT NEED any sets of algorithms to describe or limit our very human, very cultural, ethical/ spiritual beliefs and actions.

 

   More serious than soldiers and civilians dying in the thousands is whole civilizations dying in the millions or even billions!

 

Steve Walker 
Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

 

© 2026 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises