Poll: One world language... that isn't yours.

[Sabrestar]

Welsh. Because I'm perverse like that.



And it's very lyrical and musical to my ears.

 

[zombiesinc]

I simply voted for my favourite language, Japanese.

May not be the easiest, but I dun care.

 

[General BrEeZy]

c'mon people, russians totally punk-ass!
german and japanese are too minus the japanese

 

[Unmannedperson]

Esperanto because anyone who speaks a European language could learn it in 6 months.

 

[Jark212]

Latin easily, in has roots in many languages so it would be easier for a larger population to learn...

 

[iblis666]

German since i hear it has a sentence structure much like that of English and still basically uses the English alphabet which is very versatile though all in all id much rather create a new language that doesn't have so much adopted words

 

[crepesack]

本当に？Why are people voting japanese? I speak english and chinese fluently. I'm starting to learn japanese and by far is it one of the HARDEST languages to learn out there. Characters have many many readings, the phonetic system is pretty byzantine, there are multiple ways of speaking based on gender and there are an innumerable number of grammatical exceptions.

English is my native language so I shall pick the grammatically and structurally closest thing: German.

I honestly think anyone who chose Japanese either has never attempted to learn the language or seems to forget the logistics involved in training the entire world in an already difficult language. There would be a global reduction in literacy. A horrible lingua franca Japanese makes.

That is my two cents. 　

真是的，外国人假装懂我们东方人的语言的难度！
no, I'm not from China, born in the good 'ol USA and no, I'm not a communist bastard. And yes, I am Taiwanese and no I don't care that it's in simplified chinese.

Edit: My second pick is spanish because it uses a familiar alphabet, and aside from the odd conjugation rules it's pretty easy to pick up. Also, I sort of know a good bit of conversational spanish. (yay for living down south).

I personally would never pick any language based on modular pictographs...

 

[joshthor]

I've always thought german sounds really cool to learn so I voted for that.

if its german hitler wins.

 

[Squilookle]

Italian should be on this poll.

Japanese is only voted so highly because of all the Anime fans

I agree. Poll fixed

Also sorry for not including Latin, it seems quite popular, though the main reason people argue for it applies to Esperanto as well, so just vote for that instead.

 

[Ravek]

Why the hell can't I vote for English?

Because you ARE English!

No I'm not.

 

[MikailCaboose]

I picked German 'cause I'm a major Rammstein and Oomph! fan.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Lets all speak Chinese. If we're all going to be speaking the same language, we may as well speak a language that doesn't exist.

Agreed, lets make it up as we go along!

 

[Sun Flash]

Seeong as I'm lazy and can't choose my native language, I'll go German, since I'm halfway competent at it.

 

[Vern]

As an English speaker, I chose German. Part of it is because the majority of English is derived from German, with Latin influences, but also because German is very specific. They use compound words much like English, and they may end up with 16 character words, but at least you know what they're talking about, much like English. It's generally very straightforward, businesslike, to the point, and efficient. The fact that I have a decent amount of German ancestry, love the language, and cant stand Latin based languages may have helped my decision.

 

[Betancore]

Well, since Cantonese is my second language, and I can understand a great deal of Mandarin, I voted Chinese. I'm lazy and that would be the easiest thing for me. Wouldn't mind French either, since I can speak a little of it. I'd like to start learning German again, and I guess it wouldn't be so bad, since it's fairly similar to English in some ways.

 

[Kernow Chris]

Again, with Chinese, I used to make that mistake, but there is a subtle difference between "meat/flesh" and "moon":
肉 - the radical form resembles month (&#26376, but the top line is diagonal (top left, bottom right [\], and the bottom line the opposite (bottom left, top right [/]))
月 - the radical is identical to the character

Simplified makes no distinction between the two, decreasing meaning. There was some regard, but the main purpose was to make it easier to write; less focus on meaning, more focus on ease of memorization (which, for me, made it harder to memorize...larger shapes are easier, for me).[/quote]


My point was that under modern simplification, Moon (yue)£¨?© has now become the meat radical, meat (rou) £¨È? so characters that have anything to do with meat (Ð?¬xiong£¬ chest£©£¨Ä?¬ nao£¬ brain£©£¨¸? gebo arm£© all have the moon radical, that is what I meant by simplification being taken into regard for meaning, as a stand alone character Yue means moon, but when used as a radical it means meat. And yeah, there is a certain amount of decreased meaning...

 

[Plinglebob]

Russian or German. A universal language should be one that sounds good when yelled

 

[pirhomaniak]

Swedish, because it would solve the problem of violence around the world.

How can you possibly stay mad at someone who sounds like the Swedish Chef?

Bork! Bork! Bork!

 

[GLo Jones]

oh man, Dutch. All kinds of voting for Dutch. I don't know why, but I love that language, and I don't know how to speak it.

You serious? I'm pretty sure the Dutch language is just a joke that got out of hand.

I say Spanish, as it's the most intuitive for English speakers to learn.

 

[GrinningManiac]

I wish KhoeKhoe was a World Langage. So many awesome clicks

Good Day : !Gui tses

( ! = alvolear (sp?) click)