For some reason the thought of English become a standard made me feel sad. While standardization certainly lends convenience and efficiency, diversity leads to

For some reason the thought of English become a standard made me feel sad. While standardization certainly lends convenience and efficiency, diversity leads to more robustness and effective exploration — instead of everything being caught up in the same bubble. The web as a platform might become unmanageably “hot” (in a McLuhan-esque sense) if that were to happen; we’d just have to find other arbitrary ways of differentiating ourselves to form more convivial communities. I don’t mind if English becomes the common interchange format (lingua franca, ha) but I hope people continue to be multilingual and conserving and growing the cultures of other tongues.