the language we have lost?

"Seaspeak is an artificial language, but it nevertheless symbolizes certain tendencies in the morphing of English itself. It shows us that grasping at universality comes at a price, that the expansion of our horizons reduces our ability to stand fast in the place from which we view the sky. Global communication necessitates a flattening out of richness, of vitality, of density. A language not only functions to communicate the bare essentials of subject and object, but provides a delicate web of opportunities for interweaving, situational ornamentation. Conversational speech between those who share a mother-tongue is lavishly interlaced with thousands of intricacies: instinctually opting for one synonym over another, spontaneously switching the syntax round for effect, and countless other nuances in structure and vocabulary. All this is to say nothing of a range of things that are exceedingly difficult or, in some cases, impossible to capture in writing, such as inflections, tonal changes, and variations in volume. Then there are all the invisible emphases of non-verbal communication, the coding of which is as complex and variable from one place to another as the verbal language itself."