International auxiliary language
If all schools taught an easy "second language" for international communication, all mother-tongues, languages, dialects, idioms could remain in use locally, preserving ethnic identity AND the integrity of national languages. If English becomes the main language, English risks to break up into Englishes (as Latin did) it would be a great injustice to this elegant tongue and a great loss to literature.
Sent by: Henriette
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HlzWlz,
Glesgae
2009-04-15
This is a great comment, Henriette, and such a language exists!
Esperanto.
Designed as a world wide second language for some of the reasons you've outlined (and a few more).
Esperanto is not widespread enough for it to be quite as useful yet and besides English has already started splitting to take a very obvious example the difference between the US and the UK with multiple different spellings punctuations and in some cases even grammar to say there was a point when the entirety of English was always united is also a bit of an exageration think of all the regional dialects in the UK. All languages evolve over time and that isn't something that anyone can really change.
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