If everyone globally spoke one language... which would you like it to be?

[engagex]

English but super simplified. Without all of the rules, exceptions, and weirdness.

Ah yes the inconsistent pronouncing

 

[VinsCool]

Toki Pona

 

[CeeDee]

emoji

 

[orangy57]

whatever the easiest language to learn is so probably swahili or spanish

 

[Deleted member 591971]

Mandarin Chinese

OKAY I WILL STOP/

US English, I mean it has to be, i know other languages such as spanish but they are harder to learn when compared to english.

 

[Flame]

ive come to the conclusion that we all should speak gibberish. we all ready do it. its the used language in the politics section anyway.

 

[FAST6191]

ive come to the conclusion that we all should speak gibberish. we all ready do it. its the used language in the politics section anyway.

I was going to compare it to baby talk but come to think of it then it does tend to result in about as much crying.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Mean, if we can then understand each other without problem, I'd say then any language works.

 

[FAST6191]

Mean, if we can then understand each other without problem, I'd say then any language works.

True in a sense but there are languages that have features others don't.



plus all manner of other videos he has done, as well as the language side of the internet.

Plus if this is also going to be written language then other features also abound -- Korean, or at least the Hangul alphabet (there is still some legacy Chinese stuff in a few corners, and more historically), is written like it is sounded when spoken unlike English which... rather less so (would give example but we might frighten the knight's lieutenant off his island if we did that, all the blood from the wounded would not do well for such an iron hearted ally).

We then get a choice to add more features, understand more history perhaps (I find cold war history fascinating, harder to go for primary sources when I don't speak German nor Russian), save a dying language, do an experiment to see what the collisions would be (the wide varieties of English, French and other European languages for just a few hundred years, and then again with a collision with the internet, potentially fascinating to control that if this is some kind of nanobots give you a language option), or alternatively what the collisions would kill (if English then many would probably opt for it all the time owing to being so useful both on the then world stage plus entertainment plus whatever else and that would leave others to atrophy).
Language also forms a world view so you might want to engineer it for that to get rid of traits you don't like, or encourage those you do.

 

[impeeza]

The actual one: the language of money, if they can't, Esperanto

 

[Daggot]

English