Do languages evolve to prevent us from communicating ?

[kalmisto]

http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-event ... 78283.aspx

At the end of the article in New Scientist Mark Pagel writes: "......we might draw another, more positive, moral from the story of Babel: with everyone speaking the same language, humanity can more easily cooperate to achieve something monumental. INDEED, IN TODAY´S WORLD IT IS THE COUNTRIES WITH THE LEAST LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY THAT HAVE ACHIEVED THE MOST PROSPERITY."

So perhaps it is a good thing that small languages are dying all the time.

[Jukka Aho]

Only peripherally related but an interesting claim anyway:

• UiO linguist makes sensational claim: English is a Scandinavian language
  “Contrary to popular belief, the British did not 'borrow' words and concepts from the Norwegian and Danish Vikings and their descendants. What we call English is actually a form of Scandinavian.”