We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system
I still think we should agree on a universal sign language and then have every country teach it in school for all years of public school.
That would be not very accessible for people with sight or hand mobility issues. We’d need a spoken form of it, too.
We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system
It would, but we also can do better
We have, like, 3 of those: logban, Esperanto, and …lochebem?
Have I got an xkcd for you!
there are 6 competing standards!
Now 7
I agree but the esperantists will be annoyed by us choosing a different language
There’s dozens of them!
Why do you think universal sign language would be better than universal spoken language?