Universal Language

unbreakable.:

Why would we need one? It's just going to blend us all together when each culture has their own traditions and languages. What are we going to do, force them to speak one language? What if they refuse? It would only cause more unneeded problems. :|

Regardless, we've never had one and we've been getting along just fine. What's the need to change it, if it was never a problem?

Having a universal language wouldn't have to mean it takes over every other language, you know. It would just be a language that can be used globally - in theory - to speak to others that come from different parts of the world.

It wouldn't have to override every single language and wipe out all cultures. I think some people are confusing 'universal language' with 'there will only be one language and culture for everyone'.

Posed question: If Internet Slang became the universal language, would it not have to be a form of one single existing language?

ghosthorse:

Posed question: If Internet Slang became the universal language, would it not have to be a form of one single existing language?

Can you word that better? I'm not sure I get what you're asking. Why would it have to be one single existing language?

Bardot.:

Can you word that better? I'm not sure I get what you're asking. Why would it have to be one single existing language?

Well, the Internet Slang I've seen has been a variation of the English language. Wouldn't that mean the "Universal Internet Slang" theory would have to be based off one existing language not an entirely new one? Like the way Italian, Spanish, and French are based from Latin.

What I found frustrating was that even Sign Language differentiates depending upon the base language. I had hoped that S.L. would break the diverse lingual barrier.

It's alright saying English should be the universal language, but I've heard it's one of the hardest languages for other people to learn because of the way we put our sentences together.

I think the world's fine with lots of different languages and if people want to speak to foreign people who don't speak English, then why don't they learn that God damned language?

I just recieved this e-mail:

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant ;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly,

boxing rings are square,

and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns
down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?
*****

English is considered one of the most difficult languages. My mom says German is way easier than English.

Latin!

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Please no, it's so hard to learn