How many words can die before a language loses its soul? My grandmother spoke Cantonese at home, but my cousins in Toronto answer her in English, and she understands fine. I've heard linguists argue that every language adapts or disappears, yet I'm watching vocabulary shrink with each generation—words for specific rice farming tools, for kinship ties, for weather patterns that no longer exist. When a language sheds its unique grammar for simpler structures, is that evolution or erosion? Would you say YES to the idea that language death is natural progress, or NO if you believe we should fight to preserve every linguistic system?