Global Language

When people talk, they communicate with the means to convey their thoughts, but if a

person doesn’t speak the same language, people won't be able to speak to them or understand

them. With a global language, people will not have the problem of dealing with different ways of

speaking, which will prove helpful in the future. A global language would help solve communication

problems, war, the economy, and the overall equality of the World. As an observer of how

languages are used, I believe that English would be the most logically used for a universal

language of the World.



Communication, war, economy issues, and equality are tied together with how a global

language would offer people. Having the understanding of everyone in the World would help

people for the better by creating new kinsmanship and alliances, which would go on to help

misunderstandings and war, so that fighting would cease. Communication would help make

more allies for trade, which would boost the economy, helping to pay off debt. Equality is a big

win with a global language because people will get along with one another. The world has been

through many battles just because of miscommunication, and offensiveness. One example of

miscommunication is the atomic bombs “little boy” and “fat man,” if the translator in Washington

had translated Japan's answer, the two bombs might not have been dropped. Another example

was when Jimmy Carter went to Poland to make a speech. There, he made comments and tried

to be as humble as possible, but his translator said it wrong (several times) embarrassing the

president and enraging the Poland people attending. A global language should be brought into

existence because people should be able to understand one another, and live peaceful lives.

There are about 6,500 languages currently used today. So many people speak many languages

that the dream of a global language seems chimerical, but time is what counts with changing

things because everything takes time and effort to accomplish. A global language might be just a

foolish delusion to some, but people have already changed so much, that one more evolution

could be possible. There are opposing people who have all come to agree that having only one

language would force them to lose their culture, or they won't know where they came from, but

thats not true. Having one language doesn’t make people lose anything, if they were to lose their

culture, it would be because they forgot it themselves. Learning one language would benefit the

World, but it won't change who each individual person is. Culture will stay the same, religion will

be as it has been, and people can live like normal, but as a place where everyone can communicate.

When a one language World should appear, it is not as though people will forget other languages.

The internet contains so many things already, and I’m sure that with how people are, they want to

keep what they have and hold onto what their heritage has handed them, so languages will be protected

by the people it is passed onto. People can have their homelands language and learn a universal

language as well, people have sort of been doing it for a while. People have asked what language

would take over as the universal language, well the English language is the most used among the

World. Japan learns English; and the same goes for other countries. As having been the most

used, some people have decided or thought that the best universal language would be the English

language because almost half of the World already speaks it. If the universal language is Japanese, then

over seventy percent of the World would have to break away from their language and learn it; if

English is used, just over half of the World would have to re-adjust. Some people have said that

English is the hardest language to learn, but that's not completely true. Every language has its’

difficulties, and it is mainly only difficult because a person wasn’t brought up with that particular

language. Having learned a language already makes things more difficult for a person to adapt to

another one. So it just depends on where a person is from, and how well they can adjust to a different

language. Another argument that might be made is, that because of me speaking English, I am selfish.

I had mentioned earlier that the English language is used most often in the World, and that it is the most

logical universal language that should be used. Reading a book would be a problem if the language

isn’t the one a person uses, so if people want to read a certain book, they would have to get a translated

version, or just read a different book. Why should anyone be limited to certain books? Every language

writes differently, so it would be almost impossible to read things from different places. Having a universal

language would help rectify this problem, and help more people learn different things about countries.

Inviting more people to learn about countries will provides understanding and hopefully more equality

among people.



The power of people have been dominating the spotlight of battle since as long as anyone can

remember; they have brought pain on each other because of their desires and misgivings. Living among

people who speak different languages can become increasingly difficult, so for the Wounded Knee Massacre, people

could imagine what went wrong. Indian tribes had many ways to their culture, and dancing was one of

them; when these Indians danced, they were doing the “Ghost Dance.” This dance was performed to ward

off evil spirits from the land, which would allow the dead to come back to the living. Eventually as all

rumors spread, they get jumbled up and change meaning. The meaning of the dance changed to get rid of

white men, and when it reached them, the soldiers were not very happy. The men took ridiculous steps to

stop the dance because they misread the meaning behind it. The conflict contorted into the massacre of

around 150 Natives. A global language is needed to stop acts like this from happening; there are people

who think too far into things, that fact intertwines into fiction.



People have thought of many ways to help those around them; people have been

ignorant in the past concerning many things that could have been avoided, but humans have the

power to change the World. So far math and music has been the universal language in the

World because everyone can understand it the same way, but if a global language is brought

out, then everyone can understand one another more than they have ever done so before. As

people of this World we have been driven to advance our ways of life, to evolve and make a

better World, so when someone is trying to think of a good way to help the World, think of a

global language because with it, people to advance into the next stage of life. History is bound

repeat itself, but with a universal language, there is something great lurking around the corner.





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