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If this is an ironic post, hats off to you.

nightnight 7y ago
Dear tsanummy, help us to find the irony in my post or better the message in your post. So, what's your point? I'd love to know what you are talking about. Just to give another example: Imagine all countries in the world had the same language and people could move freely: You had massive and full competition between all nations/cities/economies for the best people and competition is good. Nobody is locked-in because of odd languages or would you dare to move to Beijing tomorrow? Or imagine you had the same with languages and a nation forced people to only use Cobol and ignore newer developments. You get it? English is btw also a language which is easily extendable, something like creating verbs out of nouns is not that straight-forward in other languages. It keeps English alive.
- darkwater 7y ago
  Where are you from?
- cyborgx7 7y ago
  As an addition to the question about where you are from that was already asked, how many languages do you speak?
- enqk 7y ago
  All countries in the world speaking the same language is like asking for an organism without immune system
- matz1 7y ago
  If suddenly all countries had the same language i bet overtime, they will change and gradually evolve into multiple language.
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    I kind of doubt that. The Internet, movies, TV, etc would keep us all connected enough that we would still all be able to understand each other. This article[1] even mentions some grammar forms where America and Britain diverged that have joined back together (I assume due to the Internet etc) ("can I", subjunctive, and British slang). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293876
  - reirob 7y ago
    Interesting thought, and looking at how many Romance languages evolved from Latin in the past, there might be something to it. At the same time there are languages that managed to re-unite the different dialects, at least in education and literature, I am thinking about the Hochdeutsch for German [1]. So we have at least a counter example. Would be interesting to know what are the factors that lead for similar languages/dialects to become one or the opposite. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdeutsch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdeutsch

Dear tsanummy, help us to find the irony in my post or better the message in your post. So, what's your point? I'd love to know what you are talking about. Just to give another example: Imagine all countries in the world had the same language and people could move freely: You had massive and full competition between all nations/cities/economies for the best people and competition is good. Nobody is locked-in because of odd languages or would you dare to move to Beijing tomorrow? Or imagine you had the same with languages and a nation forced people to only use Cobol and ignore newer developments. You get it? English is btw also a language which is easily extendable, something like creating verbs out of nouns is not that straight-forward in other languages. It keeps English alive.

darkwater 7y ago
Where are you from?
cyborgx7 7y ago
As an addition to the question about where you are from that was already asked, how many languages do you speak?
enqk 7y ago
All countries in the world speaking the same language is like asking for an organism without immune system
matz1 7y ago
If suddenly all countries had the same language i bet overtime, they will change and gradually evolve into multiple language.
- Thorrez 7y ago
  I kind of doubt that. The Internet, movies, TV, etc would keep us all connected enough that we would still all be able to understand each other. This article[1] even mentions some grammar forms where America and Britain diverged that have joined back together (I assume due to the Internet etc) ("can I", subjunctive, and British slang). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293876
- reirob 7y ago
  Interesting thought, and looking at how many Romance languages evolved from Latin in the past, there might be something to it. At the same time there are languages that managed to re-unite the different dialects, at least in education and literature, I am thinking about the Hochdeutsch for German [1]. So we have at least a counter example. Would be interesting to know what are the factors that lead for similar languages/dialects to become one or the opposite. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdeutsch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdeutsch