Poll: One world language?

[Viking Incognito]

Coming from Louisiana, I've found myself sadden by the fact that Cajun French is pretty much going to die with my grandparents' generation. It may just be a cultural dialect of French, but it was born from a history that has created the Cajun culture.

However, I'd have to say that I do believe that the world would be better off with a single global language. Removing language barriers has always been the first path to peace. I understand that many people tie their culture with their language, but I think it would help if everyone spoke the same language.

Of course I'd pick English because that is what I speak. I'm no language expert, but it always seemed that English was more adaptable, too.

WOW! ANOTHER CAJUN! AND I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE (I seem to be double posting alot tonight)

 

[lacktheknack]

It won't go to only one language. There will always be two or three major ones (Mandarin, English, possibly Spanish).

 

[yamitami]

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Charmander char!

 

[Blobpie]

The British empire was a VERY large empire my friend, there are very few places that were not touched by it.

 

[Demongeneral109]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
I think that should clear things up.

It does.. believe me, that was a deep and interesting theory you just proposed there..wow
Also, is it okay if I declare my love for you for having Shana as our avatar?

 

[Paksenarrion]

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Psy-ai-ai...duck?

OT: Basic, otherwise known as Galactic Standard.

 

[rapidoud]

Anyone who voted English plain and simple is a dumbass. Why not pick the most popular language? English is also one of the hardest languages to learn.

But of course, being an americanised forum, a lot of people here are stupidly biased.

 

[deonte9109]

Anyone who voted English plain and simple is a dumbass. Why not pick the most popular language? English is also one of the hardest languages to learn.

But of course, being an americanised forum, a lot of people here are stupidly biased.

You know there are a lot of English folk (and I mean England, UK, British, etc) on here. It should that because this is primarily an english speaking site that everyone chooses english. If this was a spanish speaking or french site then im sure we would all say sapnish or french respectively.

OT: It should be a system where a new language is introduced slowly so that the older generations can still operate but the newer generations will dominate with the new language.

 

[Wintermoot]

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.

what I meant by that is that most things in English come from the US making it better spread than any other language

 

[maswell]

We tried that once - Tower of Babel.

It's not going to happen.

 

[epikAXE]

As a person who is interested in linguistics (but bad at languages ) I vote for no world language xD

 

[Yossarian1507]

Am I the only one who thought about Orwell's '1984' after reading the topic title?

 

[klakkat]

I don't think I'll survive long enough to see a single world language (unless you count the C derivatives). So, no. English is the closest at this point, but that doesn't mean it'll win.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

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.

English is one of the hardest languages to learn as anything other than your first due to the ridiculous numbers of rules that are broken.

 

[SuperUberBob]

Lots of languages are dying off, you just need to like at the UK and the huge amounts of money they are spending to "save" languages like Gaelic and Welsh (?) to see that, but do you think we're moving towards a single one world language and would that be a good thing?

If so, which language should / will it be? Mandarin and Cantonese are both spoken by a lot of people, but then you've got English which is pretty much the de facto "lingua franca" (and isn't that a funny phrase when used in this context) of the business and digital world at the moment.

Or should we develop an artificial language like Esperanto (only you know better...)?

Gaelic is not a dying language. It is required in all Irish education programs. Most signs in Ireland still have Gaelic translations to go along with them. It is not spoken that often, but it is certainly not dying.

As an English teacher, I can assure you that English is and will be the "world language" for the foreseeable future. I would love for Esperanto to become more popular. It's much more simple compared to many other popular languages but it just won't happen.

 

[Surreysmith]

numbers, words are always different but numbers are always the same. Binary will be the language the machines will use when they take over the world.

 

[Priddo]

English being the most spoken language in the world is the natural choice.

 

[alzwded]

Bollocks -- we should all learn aUI, it allows you to express anything ever in just a few sounds!
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