Should there just be one language in the world?

Started by jimmy olsen, August 25, 2011, 02:19:51 AM

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Should there just be one language in the world?

Yes, it would promote economic growth, science and peace
16 (40%)
No, it would cause mass cultural genocide
24 (60%)

Total Members Voted: 40

Ed Anger

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Siege

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



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

Quote from: Siege on August 29, 2011, 09:18:45 PM
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.
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Zoupa

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 29, 2011, 05:41:03 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on August 29, 2011, 04:01:11 PM
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?  :hmm:

Yes?

Queequeg

Quote from: Siege on August 29, 2011, 09:18:45 PM
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. 
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Quote from: Queequeg on August 29, 2011, 10:09:41 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 29, 2011, 09:18:45 PM
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. 

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Neil

Quote from: Zoupa on August 29, 2011, 09:54:20 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 29, 2011, 05:41:03 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on August 29, 2011, 04:01:11 PM
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?  :hmm:
Yes?
That's not true at all.  The number of barbarian speakers of a language is irrelevant.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Zoupa

Quote from: Neil on August 29, 2011, 10:17:47 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on August 29, 2011, 09:54:20 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 29, 2011, 05:41:03 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on August 29, 2011, 04:01:11 PM
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?  :hmm:
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

Quote from: Zoupa on August 29, 2011, 10:23:17 PM
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?
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Razgovory

Quote from: Siege on August 29, 2011, 09:18:45 PM
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.
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