> You haven't understood my comment. No I understood your point perfectly. You are not understanding mine. Throughout history, people have posited your idea. A

> You haven't understood my comment. No I understood your point perfectly. You are not understanding mine. Throughout history, people have posited your idea. A "universal" language - latin, french, esparanto, etc. Now go back 1000 years ago and imagine you were in charge and we made everyone speak/use latin. We wouldn't have english, french, italian, etc. No shakespeare, no voltaire, no twain, no modernity. > You can keep all the movies and music you currently enjoy. Right I understand that. But you are ignoring the future movies/music/etc that will be lost because of the languages that never existed? > The difference is that a kid born in Penang and a kid born in Pennsylvania and a kid born in Perm will all be speaking the same language and growing up to make movies and music in the same language Once again, I get the simplistic logic. Right, we all get to listen to the same music and watch the same movies. The point is all the music and movies that will be lost. There was a time I thought the same thing. Now I realize how silly it was and I suppose you'll come to the same conclusion one day. > for everyone in the world to enjoy in the same language. I guess you never heard of subtitles or that you can enjoy music without understanding the words. And if we wiped out all languages except vietnamese, how will I enjoy all the nonexistent music that won't be produced in english, french, etc? If you took a minute to examine your own assertion, you'd realize how absurd it is. Certainly, you understand that there is a different sound to vietnamese, american, french, etc languages. These languages produce different sounds which produce different music? You don't seem to be clued to the fact that different languages/cultures/etc produce different kinds of music/movies/etc. For example, the type of poetry in the english languages is directly informed by language. As opposed to say italian and its extraordinarily rhythmic language. There are pros and cons to languages. Just like it would be naive to say we should all program in the same language or we should use the same OS or use the same database, it's even more naive to say that about human languages.