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In reply to the discussion: English should be designated as the world's language [View all]HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)36. Why not Engrish, it would be much more fun
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Thanks for posting this ... Most Americans couldn't even understand the simple metric system. I
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#176
Well, the REST of the English-speaking world has at least gone metric.
Jackpine Radical
Jan 2013
#181
Mandarin and Cantonese are considered dialects rather than separate languages.
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2013
#24
Maybe it's been refuted in your mind since it's about winning an argument for you
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2013
#101
It is typical of the person losing an argument to complain about the person winning the argument
Orrex
Jan 2013
#170
My inclination for Chinese languages is to trust in the username of 'Confuscious'.
randome
Jan 2013
#105
agree! I was trying to say rice and I was saying poop all because of the intonation
lunasun
Jan 2013
#155
Spanish is much easier than French or English to spell, because it doesn't have all those
pnwmom
Jan 2013
#157
Spanish is easiest IF you speak English or another Western European language
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#59
Too limited, too imprecise, too many regional variations, too difficult to learn.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#151
The problem with that is dialects and regional variations as well as sound shifts...
Spider Jerusalem
Jan 2013
#25
Oh Scots or Cockney-perfect example of this all for one and why it doesnt go too far for speech
lunasun
Jan 2013
#156
Some status quo proponents would say that that Tower of Babel is too damn short!
pinboy3niner
Jan 2013
#39
Chinese is coming up...and even our people are learning it to compete in the world market.
vaberella
Jan 2013
#32
Why? It's difficult to learn, a hodgepodge of borrowings from other languages,
MineralMan
Jan 2013
#38
I find it interesting that the few posts that express this point of view have NO responses.
A HERETIC I AM
Jan 2013
#189
Esperanto, designed for just that purpose, much better than Spanish or Englis
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#98
How about we all sprout wings and fly around pooping cinnamon rolls for our hungry animal friends?
dorkulon
Jan 2013
#138
What would that mean? Would everyone be forbidden to speak any OTHER languages? n/t.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#142
No need to declare it an official language, it is already the language spoken in more places than
hedgehog
Jan 2013
#143
On the numbers, there's a far stronger case for making Mandarin the world language. n/t.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#144
English has been the language of international business for most of a century already
Hekate
Jan 2013
#148
It is already the de facto lingua franca (irony smiley goes here), so what's the issues? n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#150
I am sincerely hoping that you are joking when you say that the world speaking English would be
Number23
Jan 2013
#153
If one wanted a more explicit language it should in fact be German not English. n/t
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#177
Mandarin or Spanish unless your "world" is very very small and centrally located near you
lunasun
Jan 2013
#154