Babble On, Say Researchers In 'Linguists' Documentary
The Washington Post has an article today about this indie movie. If you're in the DC area you can see it tonight. Its description in the article:
Called "The Linguists," it is basically a home movie with better than average production values -- which, come to think of it, may be a useful definition of indie movies -- that could have been subtitled "Dave and Greg's Excellent Language Adventures."
These guys travel to parts of Siberia, Bolivia and India so truly godforsaken that the film of Arizona Indian country looks cosmopolitan. All in the service of warning us that half the world's 7,000 languages are going extinct.
Have we linguists become almost mainstream?
