Will the entire world ever speak one language?

[aircooled]

If so, will it be english?

 

[aswedc]

not for a thousand years at least so why worry about it?

 

[BooGiMaN]

they already do.....its called money

 

[FoBoT]

no

why should we\they?

 

[DumbGuy]

I think they tried to do that with esperanto.

 

[Spac3d]

Enitre world?? I am sure some of the random villages around the world will never change their ways.

 

[Anubis]

not likely

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
they already do.....its called money

lol

 

[everman]

I was going to say money
English is very common for business around the world though. Not to mention, how many programming languages use english...?

 

[Luagsch]

yes, but it depends on whom kills everyone else first...

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

with in 100 years or so, english, spanish and chinese will be the three most prominant languages. Oh wait they are already. I read an article a few days ago talking about how languages are disapearing faster than species of animals.

As long as we don't all talk like they did in Blade Runner with a mix of english, spanish,chinese, and japanese we'll be ok.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
with in 100 years or so, english, spanish and chinese will be the three most prominant languages. Oh wait they are already. I read an article a few days ago talking about how languages are disapearing faster than species of animals.

As long as we don't all talk like they did in Blade Runner with a mix of english, spanish,chinese, and japanese we'll be ok.

"Cityspeak".

 

[Radiohead]

I think we'll be on universal translators before the whole world speaks one language aside from money

 

[michaelh20]

well eventually everyone will speak XML.......

<subject weather>
<text nice outside today>
</subject>

 

[skateallday]

Originally posted by: aircooled
If so, will it be english?

yeah i think it will eventually but not for a long time. and i think it would be english just cause most foreign people learn that language cause there school makes them so i think so

 

[Isla]

Originally posted by: DumbGuy
I think they tried to do that with esperanto.

I took a course in that in junior high school. I read Winnie The Pooh in Esperanto.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Eventually, yes. English, no at least not as you would understand it. Language evolves. The reason different languages exist is because of isolation. As universal communication becomes more realistic, languages will come to have more in common. Eventually they will merge, and there ya go.

 

[TallBill]

yeah, i think it'll happen.. probably not for a hundred or so years.. but it'll happen

 

[imported_Mike]

math

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
math

Or logic.

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: CheapArse
math

Or logic.

Or M16.

 

[Looney]

In 100 years? That's 3 generations... you think in 3 generations, the entire world is going to speak the same language? Highly unlikely. 200 years MAYBE, but certainly not in 100.

 

[Ameesh]

si, yo pienso que toda la gente habla espanol

 

[guapo337]

no. it's called diversity. and culture. language defines culture.

 

[Encryptic]

I imagine that given several thousand more years of evolution and interaction between various cultures, that a "universal" language will evolve, made up of a mishmash of various languages. There will probably still be different dialects of that language though, depending on the region you're from.