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Billy Corgan
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 86
Gender: Female
Posts: 378 | July 16th, 2008 at 03:46pm Oops, double post. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3415 | July 16th, 2008 at 04:06pm Synyster Gates:There shouldn't be.
By keeping things elusive to certain races, our planet still contains a small amount of magic. Your race really doesn't determine the language you speak anymore. |
Billy Corgan
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 86
Gender: Female
Posts: 378 | July 16th, 2008 at 04:10pm But still, does anyone know every language?
I don't think so.
Therefore there is still some mystery to our world. |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10201 | July 17th, 2008 at 10:21am That's interesting. I've never read that book, but in my opinion that's what could happen. Some of the languages could just phase out because everyone speaks in the universal language. |
Frankie007
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 255 | July 18th, 2008 at 01:23pm I don't think there neccesaraly needs to be a universal language. It'd be handy and all, but a language is apart of a certain county, it gives it character. |
kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3011 | July 18th, 2008 at 02:13pm Lover.:Has anyone else read Ender's Game? In it, they all speak a universal language, UF Common. In that book, having a universal language slowly deteriorated the rest of the languages. Words from one language ended up in another, and the language's adopted many English (UF Common) traits. But the plus side, people took more pride in their language, because it set them apart. Now that was just a book, and I really don't have any opinion, but I thought it may be food for thought.
Isn't that exactly what happened with Latin during the Roman Empire? |
ChemicallyImbalanced
Wordsmith
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 10201 | July 19th, 2008 at 10:03am sundown.:Lover.:Has anyone else read Ender's Game? In it, they all speak a universal language, UF Common. In that book, having a universal language slowly deteriorated the rest of the languages. Words from one language ended up in another, and the language's adopted many English (UF Common) traits. But the plus side, people took more pride in their language, because it set them apart. Now that was just a book, and I really don't have any opinion, but I thought it may be food for thought.
Isn't that exactly what happened with Latin during the Roman Empire?
That's what I thought. |
Flapjacks
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Posts: 124 | July 20th, 2008 at 11:38pm I don't think there should be a universal language. Your own language could be what gives you your history and by mixing histories, what would it be? Your own language, or the language that you speak, gives you a sense of being an individual, having pride for that country and language.
The end.  |
Evanescent Dasha
Ink Slinger
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 895 | July 22nd, 2008 at 08:21am Each country having its' own language is what makes unique
Getting rid of all of them to subistitue with just one is ridiculous
I personally know three and am in the process of learning a fourth
All of them are so beautiful and unique I would never be able to imagine a world without them. |
The Wicked
Writer's Block
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 24 | July 23rd, 2008 at 12:54pm I don't think that there should be a universal language although my country experiences the same problem.
The Philippines is so small and yet we have more than a dozen dialects/languages. This is why we have this National language.
But it goes differently when it involves a country. It needs to be unique and have its own identity. |
RENT.
Wordsmith
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 12015 | July 24th, 2008 at 12:39pm
French is like the "international language" or whatever, but that has largely to do with their colonisation and imposing their language on whoever they invaded.
Language is part of culture and history, its unique.
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Scarecrow Angel
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Posts: 351 | July 24th, 2008 at 01:31pm I don't think there should be. So many concepts would be lost that can't be translated.
A kind of universal language could evolve over time though- and that way all the vital concepts would be ported in their various modes. |
RENT.
Wordsmith
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 12015 | July 25th, 2008 at 02:17am
In a way, English is quite universal aswell.
I mean, all the world superpowers have some english speaking ability.
China, France.
-shrugs-
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RENT.
Wordsmith
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 12015 | July 25th, 2008 at 03:02am
France was a superpower.
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Scarecrow Angel
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Posts: 351 | July 25th, 2008 at 08:38am Universal implies that it be more than just extensive. A lot of countries will compromise and have English or French as their second language, but they don't do away with their first one because some concepts wouldn't translate. English and French are finite. |
jacky jules.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 1302 | July 26th, 2008 at 03:24am Different languages are beautiful and I think we shouldn't have a universal language. |
zero;
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Posts: 1375 | July 26th, 2008 at 04:38am Yes, and no.
Having one would mean a way for everybody to understand each other.
In this case - it's English.
There are a lot of kinds of people on Mibba, all of which uses English to talk to everybody.
Yes?
And no. 
I don't know - it's kind of like pride for your own language. |
Scarecrow Angel
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Posts: 351 | July 26th, 2008 at 12:19pm From Hero to Zero.:Having one would mean a way for everybody to understand each other.
In this case - it's English.
It would be easier to understand each other, but there would be less to understand, as so much meaning would be lost.
Languages develop as a part of cultures, and aren't always compatible. For instance, Japanese accomodates for spiritual ideas that don't translate into English- there are no words to describe them, as the western world has no concepts like them. Even between European cultures, which have developed alongside each other, there are hidden meanings that get lost.
Languages have been evolving apart for so long that it would take centuries for them to merge into any truly universal language. And that language certainly isn't one that exists today, or that could be easily created overnight. |
RENT.
Wordsmith
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 12015 | July 26th, 2008 at 01:09pm
I think having a universal language is good in a sense, and it doesnt necessarily mean completely wiping out other languages either.
It's like people becoming multilingual.
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Scarecrow Angel
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Posts: 351 | July 26th, 2008 at 01:27pm ^
A lot of countries might be more reluctant. Even without wiping out their native language, globalisation would be threatening to their culture. Parading English around isn't just a bridge to communication, it's an enforcement of western concepts and ideals. Think about how many native cultures have been stifled by that kind of assimilation.
As it is, I think English is becoming the dominant language, but a universal language should evolve by necessity rather than being decreed by, say, the UN. |
