Image description: Google search for “extant languages”
Including results for [extinct languages]
Search only for [extant languages]
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-17)
Image description: Google search for “extant languages”
Including results for [extinct languages]
Search only for [extant languages]
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-17)
@gila or they could have searched for “extant languages” when I searched for extant languages and searched for “live languages” when I searched for live languages
If it did, then you’d still not get any relevant results, because again, those aren’t things. A list of extant languages would simply be a list of all languages throughout history that aren’t delineated as some kind of proto-language developed by early humans. Such specificity is not at all conveyed by the term “extant languages”. The search engine can’t reply, “under what circumstances are they extant? Are Klingon, C++, Heiroglyphs desired results? They’re extant!”
I would agree insofar as “live languages” should autocorrect to “living languages”, but it is getting pretty into the weeds linguistically
@gila “If it did, then you’d still not get any relevant results” and then i’d try phrasing it a different way, and i’d have gotten there quicker because the search engine didn’t slow me down by wasting my time