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Nah. English is an easy language, taught in a vast majority of high schools in Europe, the Northerners already all speak it perfectly, it has Latin roots and Ge
by VeejayRampay 14y ago
Nah. English is an easy language, taught in a vast majority of high schools in Europe, the Northerners already all speak it perfectly, it has Latin roots and Germanic roots, it's fairly neutral, used by the US and Canada and is so far the de facto language of business. We should invest in English.
I've wanted English to be a mandatory second language after your native one in all of Europe for a while.
Also creating languages never works, see Esperanto and all those ridiculous lab-synthetized languages that pretend to solve all the problems and all end up showing the very same bias it was trying to avoid in the first place (Esperanto for example is WAY easier for a romance-family speaker than for say a dude from Poland).
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoPlease no. The world's languages are already being killed-off by English a little too quickly.
- klausjensen 14y agoGood thing. Inability to communicate in a common language is a huge barrier for development, peace and understanding global issues.