Is the Death of a Language a Good Thing?

    Anzaldúa would completely disagree with everything John McWhorter wrote about in The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English, because McWhorter's main idea is that the death of a language means people are coming together and this is a good thing. Anzaldúa would hate the thought of an entire language being killed off, especially since she's experienced people throughout her own life that wanted to keep her from speaking her own language. This would possibly be the most horrific thing she could ever possibly imagine to happen. It would be the most violent act of war against people of different backgrounds.
    
    I wholly disagree with John McWhorter's idea that the death of language is a good thing. I think that the death of language is taking away an important part of the world's culture and diversity. When a language dies it's not easy to learn about it and learn how to speak it. As John McWhorter says in his writing, there are many shelves "that groan under the weight of countless foreign-language self-teaching sets that are about as useful as the tonics and elixirs that passed as medicine a century ago and leave their students with anemic vocabularies and paltry grammar that are of little use in real conversation." Just because you can try and learn a forgotten language, doesn't mean it's going to be accurate or ever be used in the correct way. Language connects people to each other, and if a language dies, so does a little bit of that connection. McWhorter  goes on to say that English has a "head start" at being "the lingua franca of popular culture, scholarship, and international discourse would ensure its linguistic dominance." The fact that the English language is slowly becoming the dominant language throughout the world in different cultures, makes me sad. These cultures are losing a part of themselves. There's a worry that English will not only  "become primus inter pares, but that it will finally eat up even the last remaining 600 languages as well." This is a reality that scares me, and would probably terrify Anzaldúa to the core.