why we not just using one language in this world?

Answer 1

think a little deeper, what would happen if this world will only have one thing for everything? languages are basic representation of cultures around the world. You want to see a total different culture everytime you travel outside of you country right? rather than seeing, or hearing the same language spoken every where you go. That's just my opinion :)

Answer 2

Well, not to seem critical, but the "proper" English is "Why do we not use just one language in this world." And so there is your answer - you are using English, in a way, but it is not the English that is used elsewhere, see? Even here in the US, which doesn't have a lot of different dialects at all, there are many different ways of pronouncing words, and sometimes people don't understand each other, mostly fast talking Northerners and drawling Southerners.

People live far apart, and living far apart, as from India to centreal US, prevents constant interaction, so the way one language is spoken starts to differ in each place. And formerly, in ancient times, people did not "get around" much and formed their own languages and variants of each language developed when parts of populations moved or were shoved out to some place else.

Answer 3

We are becoming more of a global community and there are established international languages, such as English that help the people communicait.
But you must understand...how could you explor different cultures if there no cultural differences. It is great to travel from the east coast to the west, you wil see alot ot differences. However all in all it is prittey much the same. When you go to South America, Europe or Asia you get a culture shock, what makes the whole thing worth while.
Besides if we all spoke thesame language we all would not be very individualistic.

Answer 4

English could be very central like each and every different languages circular the globe, however the cause why global men and women use english is due to the fact that the arena alterations and approximately three hundred years in the past its all approximately Roman rulers that experience the language like we have now english to day and a few years again the panguages use earlier than english used to be Spanish which ruled plenty of international locations adding ninety nine% of the Southern American vicinity and later grew to be a vast unfold language accross the Ameriacas. But at present at present english took over the complete languages and it´s no longer that english is the foremost language however english is actuallly the language with the fewer word and handy to realize language due to the fact that it´s a language that used to be taking from Latin,Roman and the French... So its all approximately each and every different languages in english and so much vocabularies in english is taking from the Greek language. When I lived in Greece I got here to realize that the Greek language is a dictionary to english, so much phrases we use in english at present that you just ought to seek within the dictionary for the solutions are mostly used at the avenue and that made me to grasp so much phrases that almost always you want a dictionary for in english. Hope my reply helped.

Answer 5

I don't think there is one language that can really step in and act as a single standard-bearing languge for human thought and emotion. Some languages, like Spanish are very efficient for learning when compared to English (too many exceptions to rules in English), but both Spanish and English pale in comparison to Mandarin Chinese or other tonal languages in terms of musical quality. The tone-specific requirements of Mandarin make it an extremely difficult language to learn for the linguistically tone deaf English speaker, but then again, this added dimension must be respected. The central point here is different languages have different strengths in terms of conveying meaning and emotion. Certain ideas or feelings can't be expressed well in one language, but can be expressed fully, efficiently, convincingly in another. Rather than seeking to whittle away our languages, perhaps we should concentrate more on broadening ourselves to become multi-lingual. Since this is the Philosophy section, I'll present Nietzsche as a great example of a philosopher who did this: German guy who was fluent in Latin & Greek, and used a French word to precisely label a central concept of his philosophy.

Just my two cents.
Dosvedonya!

Answer 6

Because early humans spread all over the earth, and languages developed in each of those reasons. Large empires have, at times, spread use of their language as they conquered other states (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Phonecian, French, English, Chinese, etc.), but when empires fall native populations usually fall back to their own language, modified somewhat with words from the language of the empires.

There are actually a lot *less* languages now than there were 4,000 years ago, for example...then most people lived in small groups in relative isolation, where their own languages developed, rather than in large cities or countries where one language is the rule as it is now. Thousands of human languages have died out, many of them leaving no written records and so are lost forever.

You can't just mandate one particular language for everybody to use...aside from the political considerations (which language is the one that "wins"?), languages are intimately tied to culture, and some things just don't translate well. Those concepts would be lost if a different language was forced on people.

Vive la difference :)

Answer 7

I think it would be grand to create a new global language. It would be a language that encompasses all the elements of vocal tonalities in all the languages, with the scientific construction of Korean, exceptions to the rules almost nonexistent, and a system of propriety incorporated in the language.

Answer 8

Even if we could agree on a universal language, sooner or later sociolinguistic aspects like geographical distance which, even today, exist in countries causing variations in a single language in the form of dialects, would again cause dialects to grow so different and evolve into different languages again. That's my theory, anyway.

Answer 9

ALL our languages originated from 1. Population grew rapidly, new lands were discovered.. plus Human's insatiability to reformation. it's either by choice to alter it, or it evolved through time most especially for isolated places.
a single & uniform language could do good for the advancement of a civilization.
but as far as i know, it wont change Human nature at all.
We can always find a reason to alienate out fellow-being, wether or not we understand through words. our HEARTS need to speak the same language, not our tongues.

Answer 10

because languages have origins. I don't think ENGLish would have developed in china where they speak CHINese. It would have been impossible for our nations tongue to spread all over the world when communication was so hard in the begining of times.