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Anonymous Fri Jun 24 18:57:17 2011 No.3278812 [Reply] [Original]

If the world were to eventually come to their senses and have a single spoken (and written) language, what do you think it would be?

I know most people will probably say English... it's the only language I know but I am willing to give it up.

IMO, the choice should not be about the most popular language or anything like that.. it should be made by a team of linguists who will determine which language is the most flexible, expressive, and efficient. (with the top concern being toward scientific and technical ease of expression and less toward art and poetry type considerations.)
If needed modifications could be made, or an entirely new language could be made up to meet theses requirements.

So what do you guys think this new language would be like, or would be closest to? (or which language do you think would be picked, but unaltered?)

>>	Blackman Fri Jun 24 18:58:17 2011 No.3278816 File: 24 KB, 632x467, 1282441606381.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Esperanto

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:00:17 2011 No.3278824 Na'vi

Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:01:17 2011 No.3278831

>>3278816
but isn't esperanto designed to be "easy to LEARN"?

What purpose would that serve if everyone learns this new language from birth.
I would much rather have a language that is super difficult to master, if it had a lot of benefits once the language is learned.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:04:17 2011 No.3278839 Most technical scientific terms are in latin and greek so one of these I guess.

Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:10:17 2011 No.3278871

serbo-croatian language has one interesting feat: EVERY voice in the word is EXACTLY ONE letter. So when you hear unknown word you automatically know how to write it, because you write it exactly as you hear it. 30 letters, each representing one voice. Super convinient

but besides that, has too many shitty rules which makes it super hard to lean.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:15:17 2011 No.3278899 >>3278871 If I understand what you're saying, then Spanish is the same way. I mean, most words sound the same way they are written (with the exception of a few rules).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:17:17 2011 No.3278912 German or English.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:20:17 2011 No.3278922 Let's all go back to Latin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 19:20:17 2011 No.3278924 chinese! NI HaO

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 20:08:17 2011 No.3279171 Italien, its really close to latin. You pronouce words exactly like you write them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 20:12:17 2011 No.3279181 binary

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 20:14:17 2011 No.3279186 Symbolic logic

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