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

[captainwolfos]

Latin, because no one speaks it any more (at least not in day to day conversation). Anyway, everything would sound so dramatic.

I think I love you. Latin ftw.

I voted German. Medic, anyone?

 

[heartshooter]

there already is a world language, and it IS english.

but using logic, it has to be chinese. there are more than 2 billion chinese speaking people in the world already.

 

[Halceon]

Lojban. Because that is the best language to date.

 

[sb666]

Latin or Japanese

 

[Priddo]

Spanish. Isn't it the 2nd most used?

 

[Macgyvercas]

Japanese. It would give me a legitimate excuse to learn it (which I really would like to).

 

[Queen Michael]

*sings* Learning Japanese, we should be learning Japanese, I really think so!

 

[the1ultimate]

Latin!

If it's good enough for the great philosophers and scientists, it's good enough for the whole world.

 

[skeliton112]

German or Russian. I voted German. I love gutteroal (idk how to spell it, like rough, that word) languages.

 

[Gardenia]

English is not my primary language, so I'm going for that.

 

[Leviathan_]

Where's the option for English?

Jeez, OP sure is ignorant thinking that everyone on the Escapist has English as their main language.

From the list, I'd choose German. Just because it's sounds badass.

 

[skeliton112]

A world language would:
have to have an alphabet (not be character based; see Chinese/Japanese)
not be tonal (see Chinese/Korean(?))
have to be written explicitly (all elements of a word appear in writing; see Arabic for how not to)
have few or no "silent" letters in writing
have one or very few ways of forming plurals (see Arabic as an example of how not do this)
not have femininity/masculinity of nouns
have as few conjugations of verbs within tenses as possible

I can't think of any languages that fit this.

I rather like masculine/feminine nouns. Gives a nice flow to the language. Rather melodic.

 

[Blue Musician]

Hola senioretta?

I think that's Italian or Portuguese. "Senioretta" isn't a Spanish word.

OT: Russian, Japanese or Gibberish would be my choices.

 

[Cabamacadaf]

Why isn't English on the poll? Not everyone is from an English-speaking country.

 

[Owlgravy]

I voted Chinese, but want an English-Chinese hybrid ala firefly... but well cant vote english, so yeah...

 

[Vrach]

English. It's not my primary but I love it as if it was, it's simple and brilliant.

 

[Red Rum]

Why the hell can't I vote for English?

Because you ARE English!

No I'm not.

I meant because you already speak English.

 

[Yopaz]

Latin, because no one speaks it any more (at least not in day to day conversation). Anyway, everything would sound so dramatic.

Every sentence would make it sound like you're casting a spell.
I would say English. It's not my primary language, but it's one I speak almost as good as my primary language. Biology words are still hard in English though... damn my country for only having university books in English...

 

[Tohru_Readman]

Out of the above I would go for Russian and Spanish.

 

[Bill Chapman]

Dw i'n siarad Cymraeg. I speak Wel;sh, but I find Esperanto very useful on my travels.