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Anatoly

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Languages are too hard

Topic questions is: Should there be a language, which all people speak, so there won't be anything like:

> Hallo, wie kommt man zum Hauptbahnhof? (en.: Hello, how to get to the main train station?)

> Sorry, what?

A good question - Nobody is able to speak unlimited languages, or this:

> Мы уничтожем тот район, и настанит новая ера! Ера где славятьса русский народ! (en.: We will destroy that city place, and there will be a new era! The time when russian will be respected.)

> Just two Russians are speaking, let's ignore them and spy someone else!

If you know 5 languages you are a pro

Source: In terms of living people, a candidate for the record holder is Ziad Fazah, who reportedly claims to speak around 60 languages

problem: How to let people speak one language, for example why not English?

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From: Brazil

Joined: 2021-09-05

Posts: 3,174

Re: Languages are too hard

Languages and idioms are important parts of culture and cultural identity. An attempt at creating an universal language would never, ever work unless we were in some 1984 hivemind sort of thing. As much as I hate struggling with second languages (as you guys in EE Discord know very well ), this idea is almost infuriating for me.