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SvennoJ said:
Wander_ said:
hatmoza said:
Learn our language or get the feck off our internet! 'merica!


Actually England created the English language.

And the world wide web.


No Al Gore created the internet.



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Wait how is it racist? Really I don't see how, and create another language the worldwide language. I can only think of two that can do that English and Chinese.



Wander_ said:

I hate the fact that i have to talk English when i'm traveling anywhere in the world, i hate the fact that i have to write in English on the internet so people can understand me, I hate the fact that i have to Edit my post a million times to not let it sound gibberish. I hate the fact that the English language is taking over the world. I even got banned ON ANOTHER GAME SITE for talking french with another user WTF!!!

The English language is bullying and racist towards other languages.

                                                    We should create a new worldwide language that is not related to any other country and all learn it as their 2nd language. Who agrees ?

you can speak french to me everyday :P not that i understand it... but it sounds cooler

well the good thing about it, we have our common language and we can talk with our primary language to people who can speak the same language and the exclusive english speaker couldn't understand...

btw i heard there are a lot of french who can speak english but if a tourist ask them if they speak english they just say no... are french racist against english?



 

kain_kusanagi said:
I think a world language is a great idea and would help the world get along better. It should be English. It's already the international business language. Half way there!


Add that to it being the language of science and it becomes just a reality. If anything, it hurts Americans as they tend to only learn one language and have little reason to expand culturally by learning others. Oh and Canadians too.

 

Racist is the wrong word for the op, it should probably be the much less used word prejudice.



You dont like the English language so that makes the English language racist? Okay, Im going to have to disagree with you there buddy.



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JWeinCom said:
SvennoJ said:
Wander_ said:
hatmoza said:
Learn our language or get the feck off our internet! 'merica!


Actually England created the English language.

And the world wide web.


No Al Gore created the internet.

Where did you here that crap? I hope your joking right? 

Tim berners-lee Created HTML and showed people the WWW



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aikohualda said:
Wander_ said:

I hate the fact that i have to talk English when i'm traveling anywhere in the world, i hate the fact that i have to write in English on the internet so people can understand me, I hate the fact that i have to Edit my post a million times to not let it sound gibberish. I hate the fact that the English language is taking over the world. I even got banned ON ANOTHER GAME SITE for talking french with another user WTF!!!

The English language is bullying and racist towards other languages.

                                                    We should create a new worldwide language that is not related to any other country and all learn it as their 2nd language. Who agrees ?

btw i heard there are a lot of french who can speak english but if a tourist ask them if they speak english they just say no... are french racist against english?

If you heard most of those French speak english (by French, I mean those from France, and I'm sure some countries around it), you would understand why they prefer to say they can't speak it.

Here's an example: Somehow, their education system make them learn to pronounce "th" as a "z". Like "the" becomes for them "ze".

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i could be wrong but the english (at east american english) is very open to new words and has very lax rules. so it is hard to say its racists when its so open.



The reason things are like that is because the vast majority of Internet users speak English and English only. When you speak another language on a website, there usually isn't a way to tell what is being said. Allowing that would be just as good as letting anyone say anything in any language.

 

edit: As for the traveling the world part, that one has a lot to do with globalization.  America is pretty much at the center of globalization, and globalization requires communication.  Since Americans aren't going to learn the languages of other countries, as it would be way too difficult to learn something like 30+ languages, they learn our language (English) instead.  Of course, America isn't the only one doing this.  Obviously England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain all have their roles.



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This page is in english, racism!