Ok, ok people. Lets calm down and stop all this nation bashing. After all there really is only one entity we can blame.

 

goddog, killing languages is killing cultures. Not going to happen any time soon, sorry. To suggest that another language should be killed is chauvinistic or worse, besides being naive.

Besides, there are much bigger problems in the world right now.

 

goddog said: at present being the largest market where most luxury goods are sold this hurts alot of places, the EU is growing and that can help soften the blow, but to really help keep goods uber cheap and see the eu as a unified market it needs a dominent language. region specific production hurts bottom line and rasis prices for all as much as multiculturalism is nice, and certinaly should be remebered and taught, it would help a world economy if say 3-5 languages became dominent and the others went away,   chinese, english, german, japanese, hindi. no particular order to them. if more were needed 2 at most, spanish, and arabic due to the perdomince of both occering in south and centeral america and africaÂ

What an awful, awful idea. So you'd rather have a perfectly globalized world where in every country, people speak the same language, consume the same goods, eat the same food - just to lower some prices? What a nightmare. No offense, but you never really travelled a lot, did you? Why on earth should the Belgians speak German instead of their own language? Do you have any idea of what Africa really is? Which one of your chosen languages should they adopt, Hindi? Japanese?

Never mind ElRhodeo, a little thing called "reality" would always interfere with such naive and Hitlerian plans.

 

actually i have traveled, china (plane ride there is rediculous), canada, spain, france, italy, germany, mexico, personaly id like to live in shanghai for a few years, still want to go to veitnam and india.


as for africa, arabic, close to a majority speak it, though mainly in upper africa it would be hard to move it to lower africa, but at the rate of adoption of the muslim faith that could take care of that.

besideds econimic reasons, it would make education easier and in theory higher quality, or it could go the other way make it crap

I am no fool, it will never happen, but I can think about it cant I? regionalized monatry systems that are more in line with things like the EU to reduce curencies, stablize regions with an oversight governing body (in theory) confederations which is really what the eu is, well it has slightly more power than a confederation in textbook cases would have. id like to see one spring up in africa and south america, have them work on stablizing economies and shifting goods to help problems ocuring with in regions, the EU done wonders for spain.

unifing, of language, monitary systems, education, would all work to the comon good, im not saying outlaw them, remove them from histroy, or ones better than the other.

NJ5 said: Never mind ElRhodeo, a little thing called "reality" would always interfere with such naive and Hitlerian plans.

Only 34 posts needed to invoke Godwin's Law?

before you post what a horrible person i am for thinking such things, this is just thoughts, I have no desire for political office, no desire to submit legislation regarding this to my congressmen, at most this will end up a discussion here, and has been a past one in philosophy classes.

For the most part i do enjoy other languages i have tried to learn in vain chinese, know spanish, some gaelic, and german.

famousringo said: goddog said: 1.019 to the dollar and if i remeber right your health care heads fly down hear to have minor surgery Got a reputable source on that?

 I don't know about minor surgery but it is true for life saving surgery.  Proof?  What about ABC's 20/20, a John Stossel Special.   I am not sure if it is covered in this one article on the show but it is covered in the show.  It is online.  http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3580676&page=1

 

... Be lucky that you don't live in Europe...

TAX RATES SUCK

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