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No. I feel that globalization, would probably create more languages, not one global language, because of the cultural mixing. I’m a Native Spanish speaker, and am amazed at how quickly Spanish off shoots begin and form. There are Los Angeles, Miami, New york, and Chicago style Spanish's (complete with a unique vocabulary), because of a strong Latino presence. But I can barely understand most of these because I’m not a local. In the future, I think we will all have an easier time with speaking multiple languages because I think globalization will cause the educational system to focus on linguistics.

2006-08-24 14:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by pinacoladasundae 3 · 0 0

Globalization will contribute to the use of fewer and fewer languages, for sure. But it will take thousands of years for 90 percent of the world's people to be speaking the same language. Although English is the principle "world language" (the primary language of science, diplomacy, academia and education, and aviation), the users of other languages are enormous in number: I believe both Hindi and Mandarin have more native speakers than English. English will survive for a long time, but 90% of the world's people? It will take many centuries to achieve that.

2006-08-24 14:57:55 · answer #2 · answered by voltaire 3 · 0 0

i hope not, then we want have to push ourselves to learn a new langauge. And ppl would be dumb, I knew If I never took the opertunity to learn french, then I would be have the man i am today.

Also we will kill culture, and it would make thing boring, one culture, language unites culture.

To the person with the Tower of babel in there answer, its all a joke, language can easly be learned if you apply yourself, so if it was God intent to seperate us, we could have simple learned the other langauges.

Any way we will have a universal langaue its looks a little like this

001010010010100001001010101000, its called a translater, the computer would pick up language and read it like that, and we will hear it, as if the person who spoke the langauge was speaking our languge, now that the American, we r to lazy to learn, so we invent machines to do it for us

2006-08-24 14:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by Derrick 3 · 0 0

after globalization comes gLocalization, which means a reinforcement of local manners, including the languages... we can accept some foreign things but to accept them all would mean a loss of identity and ego is too strong to let that happen, besides, local conditions like weather an geography gives most of identity and aint no globalization movement changing that, so far...

2006-08-24 17:07:26 · answer #4 · answered by jec 2 · 0 0

No. Language is too much of an integrated part of individual cultures, and I'm sure that you would not want to eliminate societal roots to that extent.
Also, remember that English is already serving as the language franca of the world.

2006-08-24 14:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0 0

People could do that today. Cultures prevent such a thing from happening. How do you select the language, and what arguements would you use to persuade the rest of the world, or do you just force it?

2006-08-24 14:57:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We already do, by method of keyboard. I can talk to anyone around the world using one language, without having to learn a single sentance structure.

2006-08-24 14:56:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Good question!

Yes, I think it is possible that all humans will speak in one language. It's a very long way off yet.

2006-08-24 14:55:10 · answer #8 · answered by BettyBoop 5 · 0 0

Humans tried it before. It's called the Tower of Babel. Do a google search for more info.

2006-08-24 14:52:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Only if it's Spanish, Mexicans refuse to learn other languages.

2006-08-24 14:53:55 · answer #10 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0 0

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