I wish I could upvote this more than once. A lot of comments here are positive about the idea of a single global language when it's their language that wins out

I wish I could upvote this more than once. A lot of comments here are positive about the idea of a single global language when it's their language that wins out. I strongly suspect that if it were Mandarin, Arabic or Russian instead of English that was being suggested, their enthusiasm for the idea might be more muted.