2006-09-08 12:49:59 · 15 answers · asked by iLoveHugs 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
We do have a universal language...it's called "love".
2006-09-08 12:54:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's bound to happen eventually, the way things are going. Languages developed the way they are because at one point, everyone would speak the same language, but then they all get separated. Over many years people start to use different words to mean different things, and the language evolves. Since people are isolated from one another, and have to use different words to describe things, they do not evolve the same. Since it was so hard to travel between places, the languages became drastically different from each other. Even here in the US, language has been evolving. If you notice, things don't have the same meaning if you are in Alabama as they do in NYC. Eventually, if kept apart long enough, these dialects would evolve into a totally different language. This is how things USED TO work. Today, people travel and move so much, and have so many means of communication, that eventually one language will prevail over all. One person commented that mandarin Chinese was the most widely spoken, but this is not true. While it may be spoken by the most people, that is because of the massive population in china and surrounding countries. More countries have a significant English speaking population than any other language. If anyone doubts this, go to any major city in the world, and scream "does anybody here speak English?!?". You are guaranteed to find someone who does, if not many. Try that with Chinese....
The point is, English is spreading like wildfire, and over the next couple hundred years, the entire world will be speaking it.
2006-09-08 13:08:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anthony 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be better in some ways...all measurement and speed terms the same... nothing lost in translation
But which language would it be..English, Chinese, French. There would be wars about which one it would be and also if it were a new deveploed language who would learn it anyway.
Also we would lose all out multiculturism...that is the fun part of going to a different country to see the difference and experience the new language. NO I say just leave it the way it is
2006-09-08 12:58:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly, just as it benefits the world (outside of the US) to have one universal measuring system (metric). However, tradition and resistance to change will make sure that it won't happen any time soon. However, the number of languages is decreasing rapidly (particularly among indigenous people), and the number of speakers of the most common languages is increasing. The most probable result in the near future will be that anyone who speaks English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese will be able to converse with pretty much everyone on the planet.
2006-09-08 12:53:27 · answer #4 · answered by stevewbcanada 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think so!
That would be a complete disaster! Why would anyone want a universal language? Yes, it would be easier to communicute, but what about culture? Differences between nations? I wouldn't want to get rid of all that just for the sake of understanding others better. Anyway, you can understand me this way, can't you? Even though English is not my first language. We just have to study and cooperate, I want to keep all the languages.
2006-09-09 01:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by Hellomynameis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having a universal language many benefit the world, in terms of understanding and communication, but I think that it will decimate individual culture.
2006-09-08 14:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely! Language is the base of communication... and communication is the base of human relationships... which are the base of society!
Communication unite us, that's why latinamericans are like a "big family", have you noticed that? It's because we all speak Spanish! (I'm one of them). This doesn't happen in Europe -for example- where almost every country speaks a different language.
2006-09-08 13:03:32 · answer #7 · answered by Karin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be both detrimental and have benefits. The world could communicate easier but mass cultural differences would be lost. The world is better with colour.
2006-09-08 14:16:03 · answer #8 · answered by James S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who would get to choose? Can you imagine the arguemnts. In any case Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language around the world; maybe the rest of us should learn it?
2006-09-08 12:53:35 · answer #9 · answered by marc k 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i like it, I published an analogous question a number of days in the past. i think of the assumption is attainable. i ask your self if the U.N. is training the style of purpose. optimistically that's going to take place sometime, all aside from the longitude/variety coordinates. i think of it incredibly is somewhat lots.
2016-09-30 11:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by bungay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋