what would you make Earth's official language?

[RatRace123]

English with a Boston accent. The accent that turns me to mush when guys have it.

Also Irish, Irish is nice too.

Living near Boston and hearing this accent spoken enough times, I can honestly say:
Why would you want such a thing?
Don't get me wrong, it's not an accent that I hate and I've caught myself dropping my "R"s a few times, but I wouldn't consider it the most refined accent in the world. Namely because in most true Boston accents I hear, every other word spoken seems to be a profanity. Although now that I think about it, just peppering everyday conversation with causal profanity would probably be very amusing.

OT: I'm just gonna be lazy and say English so I don't have to learn a new language.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Logical answer: English. Many speakers, already nearly official for international business, you all know the reasons.

Preference: Arabic or French. I enjoy the sound of both. Bonus points for making all the "'Mericans" really pissed off at learning the language of their most hated cultures.

 

[Cry Wolf]

Well English should be the main language but all cursing must be uttered in Chinese!

Ninja'd, first bloody post. Well played. So, new answer:

No, wait. Still English. I'm not about to learn a new language. What? I've got complete power, fuck other people.

 

[Chemical Alia]

Japanese, having learned it as a second language I consider it much simpler and easier to learn than English. For the most part, it's straightforward. Also particles are awesome.

Chinese has all the particles your heart could desire, but none of the stupid endings on words or gendered speech.

 

[James Crook]

I'd say Galactic Basic Standard.
No, seriously, I'd say English. The most versatile, and thus, the most appropriate universal language in my opinion (I'm not a native speaker, I'm French)

 

[Tanis]

Well English should be the main language but all cursing must be uttered in Chinese!

Ooooooo...
I like THIS.

Though, maybe Japanese as well?

There's just something more 'forceful' about calling someone a BAKA instead of an IDIOT.

 

[Raven's Nest]

Well English should be the main language but all cursing must be uttered in Chinese!

Ooooooo...
I like THIS.

Though, maybe Japanese as well?

There's just something more 'forceful' about calling someone a BAKA instead of an IDIOT.

Well if you have a British accent calling somebody a Twat produces the same beautifully expressive result.

 

[GinraiPrime]

Not too sure to be perfectly honest but if I really had to choose, this won't happen but I'll say it anyways, common sense!!

 

[DaJoW]

German for the strict rules, making it pretty easy to learn.

Or Swedish to hear people from all over the world try to make the "sj"-sound. It is usually pretty funny.

 

[Manoose47]

The language of interpretive dance.

I would love to see what signage looks like in interpretive dance

 

[Fudg40]

I think we should all speak a programming language like C#. Sure it would be dysfunctional but we could tackle the problem of computational illiteracy. As an extra our conversations would be very efficient.

 

[pilouuuu]

English of course! And my native language is Spanish, but I agree that English is easier.

 

[TheVioletBandit]

A fully developed Quenya would be my choice, because it's beautiful.

 

[mrdude2010]

of alive languages, I'd say English/Spanish is the most universal, so one of those two. Including dead languages, I'd say Latin. Europe was and still is a center of power in the world, and understanding Latin allows you to understand all of the Romance languages.


I should probably give the East credit, because over 2 billion people live in India and China, but the Chinese character system is difficult to learn, so for simplicity's sake, I'm sticking with languages that consist of words made up of a set number of characters.

 

[Gormech]

A complex and fast-pronounced collection of clicks and whistles.

 

[mrdude2010]

Earth already has a universal language. It's called Math.

/thread.

I'm adding this sentence to avoid the low content violation.

 

[Final First]

I'm going to jump the bandwagon and say Latin. I already know it and it'll only be fair to use a dead language. I think Latin also sounds the best.

 

[Kyr Knightbane]

I gotta say, i think Binary. That way, everyone wins
Plus bender was able to travel back in time using a binary code tattoo'd on Fry's ass. Binary for the win!

 

[Reginald the Butler]

Just a thought, but if there were a universal language, wouldn't that just create multiple dialects around the world? Just compare the differences between American English and UK English, or Spain Spanish and Latin American Spanish. It would be that only amplified due to the large amount of countries speaking the language.

On a lighter note, children would just have to take dialect classes instead of foreign language classes.

 

[Guffe]

Spanish or English.
Only chinese is a more spoken language than these two to begin with but that does no take into account all the different slangs of that language (people from south China does not understand a person speaking Chinese in the North, or so I've heard) so I'd pick either of the two most spoken languages in the world.

Edit:
Or then I would just go with Finish to fuck with peoples' minds...

There is no spoken Chinese language instead it is Mandarin or Cantonese (those are the main 2) and that is why the north and south wouldn't understand each other Mandarin is the most spoken on the 2 with almost double the amount of people over English. English would be the most widely spoken but Mandarin has more people speaking it.

I knew that...
Well not in detail like you but I had read about it somewere.
Thanks for a clarificication, I got just a bit smarter again!