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Cool. Let's get everyone over to the English langauge, too. Think of the productivity gains we're going to have in a generation or two!
by shasta 12y ago
Cool. Let's get everyone over to the English langauge, too. Think of the productivity gains we're going to have in a generation or two!
- thisjepisje 12y agoEnglish is not a superior language. The metric system is superior.
- sigzero 12y agoAnd just about as likely to happen...
- happyscrappy 12y agoTo a certain extent both have already happened. Worldwide all science is done in metric and all programming is done in English.
- shasta 12y agoEsperanto then?
- nbouscal 12y agoEsperanto isn't in use by the vast majority of the rest of the world. What's with the false equivalences?
- polshaw 12y agoThe benefits-- which would be far greater than the metric system (more difficult too)-- would come from having a universal language, regardless of what it was. And English is surely the best placed; being the world's second language, where not the first.