I don't think so - I think in that situation people would invent other languages just to wall themselves off from other people...hell at my high school the cheerleaders (who all had their hearing) all learned sign language just so that they could 'talk' during class, that would go on times a thousand

Disagree. Because then we would have to fight about whether that would be US English or, you know, real English.

Variety is the spice of life

We'd have to invent a lot of words for different kinds of sausages then. German excels at that.

disagree

Disagree.

I don't know, it would certainly make some things more convenient, but it would be at the expense of diversity, some beautiful languages out there, and language generally fitting the culture it belongs to. Also English is a nice sounding language, but it's notoriously difficult to learn as a second language because of so many homonyms, because of so much inconsistency in pronunciation vs spelling, because of how many words there are including many synonyms, and maybe because of the plethora of idioms in everyday use.

Lol. it is not the language barrier alone! We have different cultures, minds, characters, behaviours, wishes, different vibes and a thousand other things that keep us apart. While some of those same things bring us together, even when we have hardly any words for each other to make ourselves understood.

Partly agree, but add a mandate to learn Flemish as well. 🧐

I disagree. It should be Spanish 😊

Wtf

Partly disagree