| > First, and this is the objection I grew up with, many people see it as unfair to require everyone in the world to speak "our" language. Yes, it's unfair. But we have more important problems. If humanity ends up picking up chinese I'll spend 10 years learning it. I don't care. A common language trumps those issues. > . And second, this is the one that concerns me more these days, is that being monolingual makes it harder to understand your neighbors even if they've learned the same language as you as a second language. You mean harder than the current situation where most people can't understand each others at all ? > Ultimately, I think we'll end up with English being the common language of humanity. If we don't make it so it's not going to be certain. It's also too much of a slow process, and not enough of a formal one. All those debates, all those arguments always ignore the big picture for some local smaller issues. Sometime you gotta bite the bullet and move on. I'd say pick anything, I really couldn't care less. Klingon if you want. But english is just the most likely candidate to succeed, being used in business, diplomacy and tech. |