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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoI agree but i think we also need to accept that the majority of humans live in asia and should have their own influence on the language, rather than trying to keep it from changing by associating it to specific countries where it’s native.
If “international english” turns into a creole of basically every major language, and everyone makes an effort to learn or at least become familiar with languages unrelated to their native one; then it becomes vastly more fair and useful as a lingua franca.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Pardon my wall of text:
I’m blowing smoke on this topic based on dnd terms. Common tongue is English because more people speak that already. Whatever people do to it after, they do to it after, but English as a starting point removes the need for more people to learn Esperanto or whatever other language wants to be “common.”
In the fantasy I’ve created in my head/my hot take: it would be easier if people shifted to English as common, and had “secondary” languages based on their location.
(In the real world, even sign language isn’t universal. Certain languages like German apparently also do better for certain things like written law. I realize it’s silly to expect our species to choose a common language based on numbers alone. I think more people speak English specifically because English speaking countries hold more sway on international economics/warfare (for now), and other countries have responded in kind.)