Should there just be one language in the world?

[Ed Anger]

9 out of 10 mimes like this thread.

[Siege]

I think Hebrew should be the only language in the world.
After all, it is the language that started it all.

[Eddie Teach]

YHWH is dead and Nietzsche killed him so maybe we should be speaking German. 

[Neil]

I think Hebrew should be the only language in the world.
After all, it is the language that started it all.

I don't think that's correct.

Besides, Hebrew is a barbarous tongue, spoken by barbarians.

[Zoupa]

The number of francophones worldwide has doubled in the last 20 years. I'm not sure how that qualifies french as "declining and falling". I guess journalists need to write copy and make pay *shrugs*

So French is successful because West Africans have lots of babies? 

Yes?

[Queequeg]

I think Hebrew should be the only language in the world.
After all, it is the language that started it all.

Do you actually believe this?  We have records of languages that existed two thousand years before Hebrew. 

[dps]

I think Hebrew should be the only language in the world.
After all, it is the language that started it all.

Do you actually believe this?  We have records of languages that existed two thousand years before Hebrew. 

The man thinks that Hannah Montana is a documentary, so take a guess.

[Neil]

The number of francophones worldwide has doubled in the last 20 years. I'm not sure how that qualifies french as "declining and falling". I guess journalists need to write copy and make pay *shrugs*

So French is successful because West Africans have lots of babies? 

Yes?

That's not true at all.  The number of barbarian speakers of a language is irrelevant.

[Zoupa]

The number of francophones worldwide has doubled in the last 20 years. I'm not sure how that qualifies french as "declining and falling". I guess journalists need to write copy and make pay *shrugs*

So French is successful because West Africans have lots of babies? 

Yes?

That's not true at all.  The number of barbarian speakers of a language is irrelevant.

Well. Yes. But we were talking about actual number of people speaking the language.

[Neil]

Well. Yes. But we were talking about actual number of people speaking the language.

OK.  How about if we were to deny the personhood of third worlders?

[Razgovory]

I think Hebrew should be the only language in the world.
After all, it is the language that started it all.

You'd be surprised to know that all Afro-Asiatic languages (which includes Hebrew, and Arabic), probably came from Somalia.