English should be obligatory as a primary language.
Oh, and let's unite the world into one nation, and unite the religions into one (How about Islam?), and when we talk about history, it would be "And then the country called Germany did this, and the country formerly known as America did this", and create one big democracy, ruin everything called national culture, and all be good to each other. No borders, no control, because we are all one country.
Basically, making English a primary language will ruin a lot of the national culture, because language is rather personal to the country. Dialects, older versions of words. Let the language evolve itself. It might end up being English, but it will take a lot of time and many generations, and as it is now, it could just as much be Japanese than English.
A language dies every day. Rather interesting how the dominant ones have totally caused the minor ones to become so little spoken that only a handful of people even know them and then it is gone.
English should be obligatory as a primary language.
...french-canada has dedicated significant resources to defending it's french language/culture from the cultural invasion that is english speaking Canada...
There will never be a universal primary language...maybe a universal language of some kind that is secondary to native tongues...but that's still a tremendous ways into the distance.
If there's ever going to be one language, that will mean people will have to discard all notions of nationality. I highly doubt that unless the entire human race is put to threat would people even suggest ways to teach billions of people one language, if even then, since we already have translators and that's almost as good as knowing one language.
There should be one common language that everyone knows and people should be able to have their own languages too. Like the world keeps its current languages and adds one that everyone should speak.
It would definitely have to be English or Mandarin, just cause English is most used in business and other things and Mandarin because it has the most speakers..
balerion07.... Spanish does not have more speakers than English, as of December 2008, English is the #2 spoken language in the world. The reason being for this is that it is the official language of business and of the internet. The #1 spoken language in the world is, of course, mandarin Chinese.
anyway.... English German French Spanish Indian
are all the languages i have learned. (what can i say, I travel around the world)
I say Latin should be the universal language. Almost all languages are derived from it, so it should not only help with learning other languages, but should be easier to learn. Latin's a good, solid language. =D
HUGE misconception. Do a little research next time.
My mistake. Not almost all languages. Many languages that aren't Asian. For example, terminus. Or bonus. Or corpus. Do any of those words sound familiar to you? Those are few of many, and I'm assuming that you don't speak any language but English, or I would give examples in other languages. And why the hell would I do research for this? This is not a debate, Balerion. And hark who's talking. Because a lot of languages have roots in Latin.
Then why did it die out? Maybe it wasn't all that great after all.
Why are you being so argumentative? This is just a friendly discussion with no real point, Balerion. *shrug*. Dunno. All things have to end. Maybe it was because Italy fell from power. I'm not saying it's the best language(if that were so, I would vote English), but I like it. Just my opinion.
