Several languages are in danger of extinction because they are spoken by very small number of people. Some people say that the governments should spend public money on saving these languages while others believe that could be a waste of money. Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.
Being used by a minority of native speakers, some languages are currently on the verge of extinction. While it is a commonly held belief that saving these languages might be a waste of financial resources, I would argue that such attempts are needed in protecting the culture attached to each individual language.
There are obviously reasons why some endangered languages are considered not worth saving. The ultimate purpose of a language is to serve as a tool for communication. Therefore, if one is spoken by only a few speakers, it does little help in connecting these people with today’s modern world, where some dominant languages namely English and Chinese are universally used. In this way, public money spent on measures to save these minor languages is considered unnecessary. Furthermore, since there are numerous on-going projects in other fields that need investment from the authority, the public budget would be put under pressure being devided into too many aspects. As far as important programmes such as healthcare service improvement or natural habitat conservation are concerned, less urgent action like protecting endangered languages can be postponed.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that government spending on campaigns to prevent the loss of some languages is essential. Since there is an intimate relation between language and culture, losing a language equals losing identity. Each nation has it own distinctive history of birth and development; and language has always played a crucial role in passing it to the next generation. If action is not to be taken to preserve an endangered language, its cultural identity may also disappear and knowledge about such civilization remains unknown. Additionally, native speakers would have difficulties using another language to communicate because they cannot express themselves properly as in their mother tongue. For example, Vietnamese people cannot show enough respect to the elderly if they solely use English since there are more than a dozen expressions for the word “you” in Vietnamese, which means they need to use different pronouns according to the person they are talking to.
In conclusion, for the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that public spending on protecting languages is crucial and government should take this into serious consideration.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'ongoing'?
Suggestion: ongoing
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Suggestion: owns
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1999.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 364.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.49175824176 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02108253466 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612637362637 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.384769539078 260% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3314859129 49.4020404114 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.266666667 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2666666667 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 7.06120827912 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.302369556657 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.097843074968 0.084324248473 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0473119221059 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176661213711 0.151304729494 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364504571218 0.056905535591 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.0946893788 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 50.2224549098 60% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.69 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 78.4519038076 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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