Poll: One world language?

[ReaperzXIII]

No one world language I like insulting people in other languages and have them stare at me obliviously

 

[Sir-jackington]

Sign Language

 

[albear]

Chingelish - language of the future, Stephen Fry said so

 

[Romidude]

English is the most widely known language, so it makes sense for it to be the world language. It's not too difficult either, so that's okay.

Actually, French is. I've been to Middle Eastern countries where it's their second language. And it's just a proven fact.

 

[clockout]

English mother fucker, do you speak it?

I'll go with english

 

[binvjoh]

English, no doubt. I'm Swedish myself, but I much prefer it over my native language.

 

[moshineko]

American Sign Language. I can talk to people on the other side of a window without killing my throat, and the sign for fuck looks like two little people humping. If that's not a kick-ass language, I don't know what is.

 

[Kryzantine]

A singular world language would be a very scary thought. It would take drastic, drastic world change for the notion to even be considered. For instance, you would need to first have a global government. Then you would need to have a global culture. That alone is just frightening.

 

[RAMBO22]

Personally, I would have to say Latin or Greek.

Most people in the world speak a language that is a Romance language based off of Latin, which is, in turn, partly based off Greek characters.

So yeah, I would say either Greek or Latin because they are the base of most languages in the world we live in today.

 

[Bruin]

Latin.

It's not that hard to learn.

Nearly everybody has latin language roots.

It wouldn't be that big of a transition.

Latin's a dead language.
No one speaks it except scholars and religious types (ie the Pope does latin mass).

The fact that people speak languages derived from Latin is irrelevant.

Latin is a dead language in the sense that no major populace speaks it.

However, if people spoke it, it wouldn't be a dead language.

Because people would be speaking it.

Do you see how this works?

Much of the grammar is the same, many of the words are cognates, and Latin is something people in many countries study. Countries outside of where Latin originated. It's used for so many things these days we all practically know Latin in some form or another.

Therefore, it's not irrelevant.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Well the most widely spoken language in the world at the moment is French. So well done to the three other people that voted for that. Here are cookies for each of you:

However the language of the future will probably be 'Pan English'. A combination of French, English and Chinese. It was on QI, and therefore true.

 

[Cmwissy]

US English its well spread and not hard to learn

I would disagree, British English is used in the Commonwealth and the European Union rather than American English.

The only nations I know to teach it's people American English are Asian ones.

 

[RAMBO22]

Latin.

It's not that hard to learn.

Nearly everybody has latin language roots.

It wouldn't be that big of a transition.

Latin's a dead language.
No one speaks it except scholars and religious types (ie the Pope does latin mass).

The fact that people speak languages derived from Latin is irrelevant.

Yeah, just like it's irrelevant that today the "Western" culture we embrace is based off of classical Greece and Rome (sarcasm)...

 

[tkioz]

Chingelish - language of the future, Stephen Fry said so

Stephen Fry is one of the main reasons we should make English the world language... his voice... oh god I'm not even gay and I'm in love with that voice. The rest of the world should be enraptured by it.

 

[tkioz]

A singular world language would be a very scary thought. It would take drastic, drastic world change for the notion to even be considered. For instance, you would need to first have a global government. Then you would need to have a global culture. That alone is just frightening.

Well, to be honest a lot of nations already have "one culture" with any regional sub-cultures, I'm Australian, I'm part of the Australian culture, but I'm also a Victorian, that means I have a slightly different culture then someone from South Australia... the same could be done on a global scale.

 

[Hashime]

English, it is already the international language of business.

 

[CheckD3]

I'm going to say English, N. America speaks it pretty much exclusively (except Mexico, that darn American's pointy noise)

It's just so widely known as the "universal" language. Most languages are native to mostly their own contries and the surrounding, but English is spoken all over the world, since America is slowly moving tourists to the counties and taking them over

Though when we meet aliens, that's when we might have to change languages...

 

[warprincenataku]

Almost every nation I've been to uses English as their universal language.