Poll: One world language... that isn't yours.
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We should all have to switch to Latin. Nobody speaks it, so everyone would have to learn a languags. More fair for everyone.
Japanese I build allot of Japanese kits and its nice to know how to build them proporly
but I would choose English as a world language that isnt my own (my primairy language is Dutch)
but I would choose English as a world language that isnt my own (my primairy language is Dutch)
Russia, just because it sounds awesome... that, German, or Norwegian (you know, for the black metal).
No surprise that so many people voted Japanese here... but I kinda question why?
Its got definite advantages over English, don't get me wrong, but its got equal number of siadvantages, biggest of which being it's perpetually in flux. Does anyone who voted for it realise just how many of the youth within Japan are functionally illiterate? No, really. I'm dead serious. Its got to this insane point where the newspapers are increasing kanji use because modern computers mean its easy to, and the youth are sitting there in uni writing exclusively in kana. Too many homophones? Thats easy, grab a word you learnt from your failed English classes and substitute in an approximation. Theres more flux in modern Japanese than there is in English, and English is spoken in how many countries?
Whilst I'd very much approve of a common language using a SOV grammatical structure (its stream of consciousness so it just makes sense) I think you're barking up trees here. Finally, I really doubt Japan would want that either, the government loves to utilise the language as an intentional cultural barricade: just look at the ways their internet is closed off.
I'm surprised nobody suggested English reworked and written in Korean hangul: saw a thing on TV pushing that the other day (eh?)
Its got definite advantages over English, don't get me wrong, but its got equal number of siadvantages, biggest of which being it's perpetually in flux. Does anyone who voted for it realise just how many of the youth within Japan are functionally illiterate? No, really. I'm dead serious. Its got to this insane point where the newspapers are increasing kanji use because modern computers mean its easy to, and the youth are sitting there in uni writing exclusively in kana. Too many homophones? Thats easy, grab a word you learnt from your failed English classes and substitute in an approximation. Theres more flux in modern Japanese than there is in English, and English is spoken in how many countries?
Whilst I'd very much approve of a common language using a SOV grammatical structure (its stream of consciousness so it just makes sense) I think you're barking up trees here. Finally, I really doubt Japan would want that either, the government loves to utilise the language as an intentional cultural barricade: just look at the ways their internet is closed off.
I'm surprised nobody suggested English reworked and written in Korean hangul: saw a thing on TV pushing that the other day (eh?)
I guess Chinese since almost a billion people speak it anyways. Btw Spanish sounds terrible compared to Portuguese, which I know, I'd vote for that. I agree that German and Russian sound angry and awesome.
Japan has lots of games they don't send us for weird reason(or the games are really weird)AND they have technological advances,so why not japanese
1.3 billion in the Chinese mainland alone, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam all teach it to their children as a second language... so the actual number is a lot higher, it is the biggest First Language in the world, English being the largest Second Language..WrathOfAchilles said:
This poll is stupid and discriminates people who aren't native to English!
I vote for english since It is not my native tongue but yet I want to vote for it to be a world language and this poll doesn't let me!
Stop the Internet discrimination!
Honestly, add english to the poll, not everyone here is American, British...
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I vote for english since It is not my native tongue but yet I want to vote for it to be a world language and this poll doesn't let me!
Stop the Internet discrimination!
Honestly, add english to the poll, not everyone here is American, British...
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But I am not!Red Rum said:
Welsh.
I was originally going to say this as a joke, but now that I think about it, it's actually really the most practical choice. The only people who'll really have any advantage is people who already speak Welsh, so no one group is going to be too unhappy. It's doesn't share roots with any other commonly spoken language, so it won't give people who speak any other langauge too much of an advantage. It also uses the Latin alphabet, so we don't have to go through the rigmarole of getting new keyboards and redesigning all computer programs from the ground up, like you'd have to with something like Chinese or Russian.
This means I need to make a new joke one... Klingon! K'plah! (sp?)
I was originally going to say this as a joke, but now that I think about it, it's actually really the most practical choice. The only people who'll really have any advantage is people who already speak Welsh, so no one group is going to be too unhappy. It's doesn't share roots with any other commonly spoken language, so it won't give people who speak any other langauge too much of an advantage. It also uses the Latin alphabet, so we don't have to go through the rigmarole of getting new keyboards and redesigning all computer programs from the ground up, like you'd have to with something like Chinese or Russian.
This means I need to make a new joke one... Klingon! K'plah! (sp?)