> people speak different languages and profoundly fail to understand one another. How much of this do you really attribute to different languages? By and large

> people speak different languages and profoundly fail to understand one another. How much of this do you really attribute to different languages? By and large everyone in America speaks English, but the past couple years in particular has very much demonstrated that we profoundly fail to understand one another. To me the language is obviously important for literal communication, but to an extent pretty irrelevant to the communication barriers in society.