Do you think that the world would be better if all humans spoke the same language? (rated, island)

[Max96]

I'm not claiming anything, I'm just asking for your opinions. So, would the world be better or worse place in your opinion if there was only one language for all people?

[Magnatomicflux]

Worse, and boring.

[Sickandtiredofthis]

Yes. If Europe spoke English as a native language I would be more for the EU. Language is a big thing for me.

[BigCityDreamer]

If all the world spoke the same language, then it had better be English.

Because I'm too lazy to learn another language at this point.

[divisionbyzero0]

Boring, agreed to magnatomicflux, no variation. Better than one time zone though.

[wolfloon]

Worse, it would be easier to communicate but would be a lot more boring.

[xander.XVII]

No, absolutely not.
Losing a language means losing a culture, losing, literally, a world attached to it.
Homogenising everything to English would be horrible, like it would be with any other English.
Any person has the right to keep his/her culture.

[jtur88]

If everyone did speak the same language, it wouild over a few centuries re-fragment into multiple languages again. 300 years ago, all English speakers spoke pretty much the same language, and all could be clearly understood by each other. But now when you dial an 800-number, your get a person who speaks perfect English but you can't understand him.

In my lifetime, a whole new language has split off from English and begun its own separate evolution, called Ebonics. A new language was similarly created a few generations earlier on Caribbean islands.

A thousand years ago, the people of Germany and the Netherlands spoke the same language, but now they are no longer mutually comprehensible. Those same Dutch went to South Africa, and now the Dutch spoken there is not always intelligible those back in Amsterdam.

In many cases, new languages separated and evolved along their own trajectories because subgroups of people wanted to separate themselves culturally from those speaking the mother tongue. The more you try to impose your ideals on everyone else, the greater the desire of people to want to distinguish themselves from you, and they do so by creating their own separate language.

[Max96]

Originally Posted by jtur88

If everyone did speak the same language, it wouild over a few centuries re-fragment into multiple languages again.

If it's in modern society, I doubt about it, because social media (tv, internet etc.) would retain it.

[UrbanLuis]

That sounds terrible. No, of course not.