Agreed. As a french, I wish english were a mandatory official second language everywhere : forms, menus, schools, movies and signals. I get the emotional attac

Agreed. As a french, I wish english were a mandatory official second language everywhere : forms, menus, schools, movies and signals. I get the emotional attachment to ones own language but making it easy for the entire humanity to communicate is a much more important goal. It trumps culture and history. It trumps nationalism. And why english ? Well i don't care. It could be anything really. But the only thing that is used by most people than english is chinese, and it's only use way more locally or contextually as english, while being more complex. English has very simple tenses, few symbols, not required accents and the industry and culture already use it massively all around the world. It's full of useless complexity and artifacts like all language, but it's there. Let's all add it to our toolbelt and be done with it.