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reply posted on 3-6-2004 @ 10:30 AM by dr_strangecraft
Many folks are familiar with the sorry states of Esperanto and Volapuuk, two artificial languages designed to unite the world in blissful harmony of mutual understanding.

There is currently talk of a WORLD language, or at least a EUROPEAN COMMUNITY language.

I think Prankmonkey is close, but the answer will not be Spanish, but Latin. The following page is a joke, but think about it for a minute . . .

www.omniglot.com...

The catholic church would be supportive of the idea, to say the least:

www.cathnews.com...
www.mgilleland.com...

There is an ongoing effort to revive Latin, particularly as a Pan-European language, in part because it would exclude Russia and slavic culture from the EU. This is not an official program, but is popular throughout West Europe. Finland even has an international radio program that broadcasts in Latin. Here are several websites that relate to the revival

www.publiscan.fi...
www.maierphil.de...
www.usatoday.com...



reply posted on 5-6-2004 @ 05:45 PM by muppet
Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
A fascinating and eye-opening little piece on the world's languages here:
www.ship.edu...


Wow..thanks for that. I never realised there were so many different basic groups. You can almost see the migration of the peoples and cultures in the spread of the language.

To me, it's hard to see English not becoming the universal language. It's already the most common "second language" in the world. Spanish or Chinese may have more native speakers, but they have much less cultural influence.

Having said that, English itself is actually a very quickly evolving language in it's common usage, so it may well change a lot to include elements of other tongues. That might be one of the reasons it is so intricate/illogical and hard to learn accurately.

Another issue is it seems to be very "context" based. This gives it a lot capacity for flexibility and subtly of meaning, while also allowing someone with a very limited vocabulary to undertand or be understood.
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