Poll: One world language... that isn't yours.
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Spanish because:
1. It is so awesome having a phonetic written language that matches up to the spoken language virtually all the time. Unlike languages like English or French whose written words at best match up to how they used to be pronounced.
2. Spanish uses an alphabet-based writing system which is easier to learn than a logograph-based writing system like Chinese or Japanese.
3. Unlike Esperanto a lot of people already speak Spanish (at least in the Western Hemisphere) so finding people to teach Spanish would be easy.
4. I already speak some Spanish
1. It is so awesome having a phonetic written language that matches up to the spoken language virtually all the time. Unlike languages like English or French whose written words at best match up to how they used to be pronounced.
2. Spanish uses an alphabet-based writing system which is easier to learn than a logograph-based writing system like Chinese or Japanese.
3. Unlike Esperanto a lot of people already speak Spanish (at least in the Western Hemisphere) so finding people to teach Spanish would be easy.
4. I already speak some Spanish
That's not entirely true, there's half of Belgium and a little splinter of France plus people in South Africa, Surinam, the Dutch Antilles and probably still some in Indonesia.rokkolpo said:
Found a list that puts Dutch as the 48th most spoken language. And a site that claims the number of languages at something like 2700. So that's not too bad even if heavily unconfirmed.
Of course Mandarin has twice the number of English (#1 and #2) so its pretty much pointless comparitavely.
See that? Point proven. Thanks, I was unsure of the number, I only remember seeing a total of primary and secondary with Chinese.Kernow Chris said:
Italian or Latin would be my choice, or perhaps a new language all together that's designed to be simple to learn and effective to use.
I guess Chopper Reid needs to revisit French 101.Triangulon said:
On the subject* I would also love to speak spanish. I just need to learn it someday!
It probably would win, because everyone else votes English, since it's so many other language speakers second language. We just can't vote for it, because we are biased. I think the idea is that you want to avoid the, "I speak the language, so this one" bias, to prevent the Pirates of the Carribean, "We never elect a new King because everyone just votes for themselves" problem. Of course, if you wanted to really do this properly, you would need to start dealing with Weighted averages and such But really, thats too much work when you just want to hear everyone's second favorite language after their own.Canid117 said: