Should there just be one language in the world?

[HVC]

Bilingualism is good sometimes. for example i have a job interview on Monday that I’m woefully under qualified for, but since I’m fluent in Portuguese they're giving me a shot hah

Wait until they hear your pidgin Azorean Portuguese though.

Pidgin continental Portuguese, thank you very much! Actually, my spoken portuguese is fairly good (although there are NA worlds like Drivar, which would make some one in portugal very confused)

Though, i'll be communicating with brazillian, so it doesn't help lol

That's Azorean pidgin, sorry.

hey, i have family from nazare and lisbon here, and they use it too

[Eddie Teach]

It doesn't matter how many or how few languages there are in the world.  What would make the world a better place (well, Languish anyway) would be if Timmay couldn't post in any of them.

The world would be a better place without Languish? 

[Barrister]

I love how I got away with insulting how HVC speaks portuguese, when I can't speak a word of it myself. 

[Valmy]

I love how I got away with insulting how HVC speaks portuguese, when I can't speak a word of it myself. 

Better than your pidgin-Ruthenian Ukrainian.

[Malthus]

I love how I got away with insulting how HVC speaks portuguese, when I can't speak a word of it myself. 

Better than your pidgin-Ruthenian Ukrainian.

Insider's tip: if you wish to insult a Ukranian, call them a "little Russian". Works every time. 

Also, call Ukraine "The Ukraine".

[Barrister]

I love how I got away with insulting how HVC speaks portuguese, when I can't speak a word of it myself. 

Better than your pidgin-Ruthenian Ukrainian.

Insider's tip: if you wish to insult a Ukranian, call them a "little Russian". Works every time. 

Also, call Ukraine "The Ukraine".

Of course I can't even speak pidgin Ukrainian.  I probably only know 20 words or so. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Bilingualism is good sometimes. for example i have a job interview on Monday that I'm woefully under qualified for, but since I'm fluent in Portuguese they're giving me a shot hah

Wait until they hear your pidgin Azorean Portuguese though.

Pidgin continental Portuguese, thank you very much! Actually, my spoken portuguese is fairly good (although there are NA worlds like Drivar, which would make some one in portugal very confused)

Though, i'll be communicating with brazillian, so it doesn't help lol

That's Azorean pidgin, sorry.

hey, i have family from nazare and lisbon here, and they use it too

Even if Lisboete is pretty bad, that's way worse than Lisboete since they don't use it. Same goes for Nazarese although it's not obnoxious as Lisboete.

[HVC]

Bilingualism is good sometimes. for example i have a job interview on Monday that I’m woefully under qualified for, but since I’m fluent in Portuguese they're giving me a shot hah

Wait until they hear your pidgin Azorean Portuguese though.

Pidgin continental Portuguese, thank you very much! Actually, my spoken portuguese is fairly good (although there are NA worlds like Drivar, which would make some one in portugal very confused)

Though, i'll be communicating with brazillian, so it doesn't help lol

That's Azorean pidgin, sorry.

hey, i have family from nazare and lisbon here, and they use it too

Even if Lisboete is pretty bad, that's way worse than Lisboete since they don't use it. Same goes for Nazarese although it's not obnoxious as Lisboete.

it's just the lingo here, meu (which i a purely euro portuguese term i hate).

[Monoriu]

The lack of an alphabet would seem to make it somewhat inflexible.  Harder to add new words into the language.

Harder?  It is almost impossible   Especially in the age of computers.  You can invent a new word.  Good luck to get the PRC computer system to accept it.  Because of the one child policy, a lot of parents are themselves single children, and both the father and the mother want to preserve their family name.  So they invent a new word as the surname for their child by combining their own respective family names.  Only to find that it is impossible to register the new word/name at government offices.  In the age of handwriting, the sympathetic officials can accept it.  But the local officials can't change the central computer database. 

[Ideologue]

The Russians imposed one language throughout their empire.  The Soviets decided it was a good idea to make everyone the same, to solve their differences.  One country, one people.  How did that go for them?

The Soviets typically designed their apartments such that a toilet and a bath tub were in separate rooms, rather than in one room as is typical in US.  How did that work out for them?

That's a really good idea.

[Ideologue]

The lack of an alphabet would seem to make it somewhat inflexible.  Harder to add new words into the language.

Harder?  It is almost impossible   Especially in the age of computers.  You can invent a new word.  Good luck to get the PRC computer system to accept it.  Because of the one child policy, a lot of parents are themselves single children, and both the father and the mother want to preserve their family name.  So they invent a new word as the surname for their child by combining their own respective family names.  Only to find that it is impossible to register the new word/name at government offices.  In the age of handwriting, the sympathetic officials can accept it.  But the local officials can't change the central computer database.

Why don't you guys just develop a phonetic writing system?  Wouldn't that be easier?

[crazy canuck]

Mono how do the Chinese deal with new technologies etc.

[The Minsky Moment]

Mono how do the Chinese deal with new technologies etc.

They steal 'em.

[crazy canuck]

Mono how do the Chinese deal with new technologies etc.

They steal 'em.

I would also have accepted copy 'em as a correct answer.

[Barrister]

Mono how do the Chinese deal with new technologies etc.

They steal 'em.

*rimshot*