#language ban

[indizombie]

During the first world war, parts of America grew hysterically anti-German. Some Germans were spat at in the street. The teaching of their language was banned in schools. Sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage”. German books were burned, dachshunds kicked and German-Americans forced to buy war bonds to prove their patriotism. When New Ulm, a predominantly German town in Minnesota, refused to let its young men join the draft, the National Guard was sent in. After the war, German-Americans hunkered down. Many stopped speaking German and anglicised their names.

‘The silent minority’, The Economist ​

[ncfan-1]

Thingol was right to ban Quenya

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No. While I understand why Thingol felt the need to level sanctions against the Noldor, a language ban is never justified. A language ban is an appalling attack to level on a whole culture, because it can very easily help to erase said culture, and traumatize the people no longer allowed to express themselves in their own cradle tongue. I wrote some fic about this, actually.