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If it's in modern society, I doubt about it, because social media (tv, internet etc.) would retain it.
Even if those forces were to lead us in that direction, it would only be a partial "victory" for that common language.
Lots of exposure to a common language or way of speaking doesn't necessarily eliminate all differences.
Close to 50% or maybe more of the TV and movies my kids have watched in their lives have featured the European French accent from France. This is true of their friends as well. And yet they don't speak with a Parisian accent at all! Yes, they know expressions and terms from European French that the generations before them would not have been familiar with, but they still greatly retain our national language characteristics.
British people have been exposed to American media and culture for several generations, and yet they haven't stopped "sounding" British (accent, vocabulary or expressions).
And look at how much exposure English Canadians have to American culture, and they still don't sound exactly like Americans nor do they use the exact same terms for everything.
Even within the U.S. there are big regional differences in speech even though there is a single overarching media and cultural scene.
But reference, grammar rules, dictionaries, enciclopedias....
When the roman empire fell, there were none of those things, only a priest that spoke to them showing his back in a language that became sort of ritualistic, but which people could not relate with the passage of years because they did not read.
The accent and mannerisms are inconsequential... just a century and two centuries ago, there was almost a dialect in every European town..people did not read much, no media.
I think the world would be a better place is all the people spoke the same language, there would be less conflicts, wars etc. It would also be more dull and boring, that's right, but on a whole a better place.
I think the world would be a better place is all the people spoke the same language, there would be less conflicts, wars etc. It would also be more dull and boring, that's right, but on a whole a better place.
Very few wars in human history have been specifically related to language. People fight for all sorts of reasons, and people who speak the same language also fight very often as well.
I think the world would be a better place is all the people spoke the same language, there would be less conflicts, wars etc. It would also be more dull and boring, that's right, but on a whole a better place.
Do you really that there would be no conflicts and wars if there was only one language? Or it was sarcasm?
Very few wars in human history have been specifically related to language. People fight for all sorts of reasons, and people who speak the same language also fight very often as well.
Yes, differences create friction which can result in wars.
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Do you really that there would be no conflicts and wars if there was only one language? Or it was sarcasm?
Less conflicts, not no conflicts at all. I think that if people would understand each other better, communicate with each other more, a number of conflicts would not have happened.
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