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The author wasn’t arguing against a common language. He was arguing against English being that language.

• lyjackal 7y ago
  Hmm? Didn't sound like he was arguing that point (ship has sailed). Just reminding people that learning languages is hard, and that we also need a common dialect for the common language.
  • mdpye 7y ago
    If I read correctly, antirez's biggest complaint is English orthography (the way the spelling maps to the pronunciation - or doesn't, in the case of English!) There's a secondary thread about native speakers being useless at adjusting their language to simplified English when talking to people for whom it is a second language. IME, that's something most people only learn to do when they learn a second language themselves.