I am against killing languages but this just seems like the likely outcome of a global economy. Eventually the planet will be cohesive if we don’t kill ourselves first. English isn’t my first choice in what language should be dominant though, it’s too fucking confusing and breaks its own rules too often.
The simple claim of calling Arabic a single language is inherently a political one, in the same way calling Cantonese and Mandarin the same Chinese language is. Or would be like trying to reduce the Slavic languages into one or two.
By that argument, you should already be learning Mandarin, the world language spoken by the largest number of people, and in what in future will be very, very likely the biggest industrial economy.
Fun fact, I was last summer in Ljubljana / Slowenia, and some shops already have signs in Chinese writing.
I am against killing languages but this just seems like the likely outcome of a global economy. Eventually the planet will be cohesive if we don’t kill ourselves first. English isn’t my first choice in what language should be dominant though, it’s too fucking confusing and breaks its own rules too often.
The alternative global language is Mandarin which is even more of a mess
Arabic would also be an option, or an entirely new language.
Esperanto, sunken into it’s chair, slumbering, raises it’s head
The simple claim of calling Arabic a single language is inherently a political one, in the same way calling Cantonese and Mandarin the same Chinese language is. Or would be like trying to reduce the Slavic languages into one or two.
Esperanto gang, rise up!
we should standardize on Lojban.
that way, nobody’s happy.
By that argument, you should already be learning Mandarin, the world language spoken by the largest number of people, and in what in future will be very, very likely the biggest industrial economy.
Fun fact, I was last summer in Ljubljana / Slowenia, and some shops already have signs in Chinese writing.