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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I think your first sentence got a little butchered by autocorrect, I assume it’s supposed to say “so many people”

But I agree that America (and honestly many other primarily English speaking countries) would be a big holdout if anything but English was to be adopted as the auxiliary language. Many other countries would probably be somewhat more open to it, but it has been tried before and never seems to gain traction (esperanto almost had a moment in the early 20th century where an esperanto-speaking county was almost established and where it almost became a working language for the League of Nations- the latter never came to pass basically because the French threw a hissy fit over it.)

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