Why do we have to have 15k languages all over the world and then more than that we have to have not only one alphabet but so multiple types of writings. More than that, even nations that share the Latin alphabet for example, have to add a few additional letters, just to make it their on. Arabs chose to write from right to left, Chinese have their own symbol for everything, Russians and Slavic like nations use Cyrillic alphabet and so on. Not to start talking about sounds and grammar rules!
Why can’t everyone just speak English, plain English. It’s probably the most expressive language, the easiest to learn and with the easiest grammar anyway. Every time you do anything for more than nation wide use you have to translate it, spend money and time on that. Localize programs, translate web pages, translate legal documents. More than all these time and money wasting, there are other things that you can avoid if everyone speaks the same language: get lost in a foreign country because no one there speaks a common language, make friends from other cultures for some it means less access to information and so on.
And why is that? Because people think that their identity resides in the language they speak. No. It doesn’t. It resides it what they say and not how they say it. If everyone would speak the same language, then everyone else would understand them. It would be easier for us to discover real talent and intelligence when you don’t have the language barrier. Cause that’s what it is: a barrier.
One of the reasons that Americans have the most accomplishments when it comes to film for example resides also in language. They speak the most understood language.
Younger generations, the majority speak English along with their mother tongue language and others. They don’t speak it correctly as in some cases they might not have learnt it in school but just by watching movies. But they do speak and understand it. So probably in the long run, the world will evolve to a unification of languages. And I think it’s going to be English.
Glam glam.
