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I don't think English is particularly easy to speak, read nor write. The pronounciation is highly irregular and the writing system is very non-phonetic. E.g. "s

I don't think English is particularly easy to speak, read nor write. The pronounciation is highly irregular and the writing system is very non-phonetic. E.g. "spelling bees" don't make any sense in most languages. Chinese also seems to be moving to the very phonetic and regular Pinyin that (for Mandarin) doesn't suffer from character amnesia. I do agree that languages are walls between peoples and should be taken down with a global language. Maybe in few decades the kids speak some kind of Chinglish.

cynicalpeace 2y ago
"Easier" I didn't say easy. It's a relative comparison. Spanish and ASL are easy languages, but they won't help Peru or the Deaf community become hegemons for their own reasons. We already have the global language. It's called English lol
- jampekka 2y ago
  > We already have the global language. It's called English lol Around 82% of people don't speak English. Mandarin at around 86% isn't that far off. Lingua francas come and go, and it's a lot more about weapons than about linguistics. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-l...
  - cynicalpeace 2y ago
    Most of those English speakers learned it as a 2nd language. Most of those Chinese speakers learned it as a native speaker. No language worldwide is even close to English in terms of learning demand. Chinese doesn't even rank in the top 3.