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English is not a superior language. The metric system is superior.

• sigzero 12y ago
  And just about as likely to happen...
  • happyscrappy 12y ago
    To a certain extent both have already happened. Worldwide all science is done in metric and all programming is done in English.
• shasta 12y ago
  Esperanto then?
  • nbouscal 12y ago
    Esperanto isn't in use by the vast majority of the rest of the world. What's with the false equivalences?
• polshaw 12y ago
  The 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.