A few language are increasingly spoken in different countries, while the usage of others is rapidly declining. Is this a positive or negative development?
It is true that just some languages are spoken by a majority of the Earth’s population whereas others are being left behind as the world becomes a homogenous, global society. In my opinion, there are both positive and negative effects.
On the one hand, the expansion of some dominant languages could bring several benefits to individuals and society as a whole. As communication has been immensely improved, trading between countries will be facilitated, which leads to a higher GDP for nations. Moreover, the dominance of some so-called international language will be likely to drive citizens, especially young generations, to learn a different language in addition to their mother tongue. This would greatly beneficial for them since the exposure to different languages and cultures will broaden their horizons and help them have a more objective outlook on the world.
On the other hand, the decline in the use of a language could have a negative impact on the language-speaking communities. Firstly, language is of great cultural importance. Therefore, when a language is dying out, so too does the community’s culture and heritage. For example, written documents such as stories or myths will not be understood by the future generations or perhaps the elderly are dying without passing on knowledge to their posterity. This will lead to a permanent disconnection between the young generations with their ancestors, thus a lack of a sense of identity would be inevitable.
In conclusion, while it is worrying that many languages are on the brink of extinction, the increasing popularity of others could be beneficial for society and individuals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...beneficial for society and individuals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, thus, whereas, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1416.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 263.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38403041825 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16568182892 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.589353612167 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 448.2 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7668567352 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.0 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9166666667 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.9166666667 7.06120827912 197% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192862573977 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733940479505 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522191423195 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127056782655 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0234246053852 0.056905535591 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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