Baumeister

Sees linguistic diversity as more trouble than it's worth, "so what if some languages dies--people will communicate in other languages".

"The purpose of language is communication. Communication requires mutual understanding. A language only works if speaker and hearer both understand it. Sharedness is the essence of language. The more widely shared, the more effective" .. "Conserve [the] effectiveness of language to communicate". So if there's already thousands of languages in the world, would it really matter if one languages dies that no one or only a small handful of people use?