So yeah, instead of learning one de-facto lingua franca of the world and more or less successfully communicating regardless of geographic origin, let's totally

So yeah, instead of learning one de-facto lingua franca of the world and more or less successfully communicating regardless of geographic origin, let's totally focus on learning, let me cite the article out of context, > the current 7000 or so languages , all meaningful international interop be damned! The gist of the article is basically the hackneyed "diversity is good", but no solutions are given as to how would people understand each other should this pesky English domination be gone. Should all the world become over-reliant on google translate instead? That would mean business for google, for sure. A Russian-speaking guy who doesn't feel over-reliant on English a tiny bit here (and also notices the morbid tendency to separate the humankind and encamp it back into the isolated national states of the yesteryear).