Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government?

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Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I agree to a point, different languages and experiences can help to shape your mind in different ways which is overall a strength

However, if you’re not able to effectively communicate those thoughts to the people who need to hear them, it’s not doing anyone any good

I like the idea of an international auxiliary language, not to replace anyone’s primary language, but basically to be everyone’s second language.

Day-to-day I want everyone to keep using their native tongues, and where possible I’d like them to learn each other’s languages too. But there are some 7000+ languages in use around the world, no one can learn them all, and having a common language to fall back on could be incredibly useful for facilitating communications between different people

There have been a few attempts to come up with one over the years, either by selecting an existing language, or coming up with a constructed language, probably the most famous example of the latter is Esperanto, though that didn’t exactly take off the way its creator might’ve hoped.

Full disclosure - I’m teaching myself Esperanto. I am under no delusion that it’s ever going to fill that role as an international auxiliary language, and I’m not sure I’d want it to be, there’s plenty of valid criticism of it, and I think there could be better options

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