Universal Lauguage

But think about it, without conflict on earth there is no way to recognize peace. To me, conflict is also a good thing, because it helps people understand and appreciate the peace and good times.

 

thats true.
I believe in a divsion of power. Theres enough "world" to go around. If you dont like a certain group of people, dont live by them.

 

If we need a universal language, we need to get all of the languages put together. No consider the Chinese language. There are many, many, many dialects of the language. That's why when most people go to China, they need to know more than one form of the language.

 

thats very true.
But it most likely wont happen (I PRAY!!)...

 

It's definitely not going to happen. They couldn't combine all of the languages. If there was going to be a universal language, it'd be English. India's a good example of this. You can get around better knowing English than Hindi...

 

I'm worried about that. Actually, 1/3 of the Chinese have learned English. Thats (i think) 300 million people. Thats the same amounjt of people here in the US. So English is very close to being universal unfortunately...

 

But what about japanese or french? What about hebrew?

 

I love Japanese! Nihongo ga sukina desu nee. I don't know exactly why English has become so widespread. I know it has something to do with the whole England/America thing...I should conduct research on this, but it isn't really important to me. I'll save the job for someone else. haha

 

Because Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical supplementation of the Anglo-Frisian core of English; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Italic branch of the European languages. This Norman influence entered English largely through the courts and government. Thus, English developed into a "borrowing" language of great flexibility and with a huge vocabulary.

The emergence and spread of the British Empire as well as the emergence of the United States as a superpower helped to spread the English language around the world.
(this is what i got from some source)

Well, my thought for Universal Language is:
Yes, we need Universal Language. But we can't achieve world peace just because we have universal language or universal religion. There must be some people who disagree about this, and began to revolt. There were no such thing as "world peace". All were fake peace, many countries want to claim other country to their own.

I do not believe that someday there are "world peace", the hardness of this world allow many people become evil.

 

Yes, the world is full of much evil....

 

One reason is because English is the buisness language. If you're gonna do buisness, you have to know English.

 

but if you really want to do business in the U.S., you need to know Chinese especially.

 

I'm not so sure about that. Last I heard, English was the buisness language, and that all buisnesses used that language. I could be wrong though.

 

Apparently Mandarin (Chinese) is the most commonly used language. This may be due to the fact that China is overpopulated having nearly half of the worlds population in the country. Having saying this, it may support Graceful Assassins statement but could also debate against it via the language majorly spoken in China.
Furthermore I think that English is the Universal language where the UN uses it so that all countries could understand. However, they still have translators on site at the UN indicating that some countries may refuse to pick up English as a language.

 

But the most popular language is Chinese being the fact that China has the most people in the entire world. Also, China is top os the U.S. trade along with Canada.

 

Even though Chinese is the most POPULAR language, it is true that english is the business language. Business deals between two countries are ALWAYS conducted in english.

 

Oh, really, I had no idea.

 

It's due to the fact that English itself is very easy to discern when speaking. Sounds for letters in the english language are very different and very easy to understand, save a few words. Someone with rudimentary speaking ability in English can still handle a conversation, someone with rudimentary speaking ability in Chinese or Japanese etc. would be lost completely after a short time.

 

Not really . . . English has many shortened versions of words i.e. it's, should've, etc.

 

I agree with Zenrot. The English language is not an easy one to learn; however, I think that it is easier to pick up an English conversation more easily with rudimentary skills in English than to pick up a Chinese conversation with rudimentray skills in Chinese. There isn't so much of an emphasis on inflection. English doesn't tend to have words that sound almost exactly the same (speaking as a person whose native language is English)...as opposed to Chinese, where words that sound almost exactly the same but mean completely different things are extremely common.