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RE: What if everyone in the whole World spoke the same language?
One world Language, yes that would definitely cause a fight to decide which one wins.
Younger people on this planet would probably say emoji should win, but not everyone understands emoji (or even wants to), and how would the blind read emoji or the deaf hear emoji.
What of the humans with no device to display emoji, do they even count?
More to the point why should there be only one language anyway, the world doesn't need to assimilate into one, it needs to keep individuality and uniqeness alive.
You got an upvote & resteem too.
Great response @pqlenator and there seems to be a trend here with emojis, which I think is brilliant. I do however believe that 6909 different languages is slowing down our fluidity as humans all living on the same ship, metaphorically speaking. We only get a 75-100 year lifespan, so I just don't think we have the time to get our heads around so many. We don't have to lose our individuality, if we all spoke the same language, it's our geographic cultural connection that we believe is synonymous with the language, which it is, but is that the best for our future together? It's about a modern day perspective on the world and I just see and experience so many problems with language barriers, that it prompted me to write this post. We all see the world through different eyes, but I would like us all to be able to say what we see to each other. Thank you so much for Resteeming, you have yourself a reciprocated follower.
Yes humans do if lucky get a lifespan of up to 100 years, debating which language would become the only one used on the planet could take up a huge portion of that lifespan, knowing how various governments view the need to control everything. What would happen in the mean time prior to the momentous decision when the language is introduced....tiny humans are born every second and they need to start developing language skills as soon as humanly possible. It could be 10-15 or more years into a child's life before the language is introduced as the only one to be used, suddenly all prior language is null and void...hmm not so sure about that being a good idea.
It's called a managed transition @pqlenator. With any big changes, there's always a transition period, and I think that's what you are referring to. Of course that period is going to be messy, it always is, but then that's life. A good example would be for 1500 years we were told the world was flat, but then for the last 500, we've been told it's actually round. There's always going to be a choppy transition period.