Yeah, English is the most spoken language in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
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forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 5 hours agoHot take: Everyone should accept that English is the common language, and only speaking one language is a setback.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 hours ago
janus2@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago also hot take: US schools should teach 100–300 most common kanji (their meanings and pronunciations in Mandarin) if nothing else to dispel the myth that logograms are “too hard to learn” for English speakers
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago Yeah, as fucky as English is, as hard as it can be to learn, it’s currently the lingua franca ;)
Plus, because it’s a language that loves borrowing words and phrases, it’s already set up with an ease of integration to a limited extent.
At this point, any effort to displace it as the default is going to cause as much trouble and hassle as it’s place as the default does.
That being said, a language like Esperanto would be a better choice overall. It’s kinda like how Latin can serve as a neutral and fixed language because it’s dead. Esperanto isn’t dead, but it’s similarly fixed, and not tied to a single culture, so it would work. Then again, so would Latin
gnutrino@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Esperanto isn’t dead
Only because it was never alive to begin with
- southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Lmmfao! Yeah, it never even had a chance, unfortunately
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Only if you accept that English is a garbage language and reform it so the rest of the world has to learn a sensible language instead of the clusterfuck that is english.