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Make English the universal language.

Name: Anonymous 2006-08-06 6:38

Fuck your culture, you heard me. Culture is just technology to be hand-picked at the INDIVIDUAL'S discretion, not something you have to indoctrinate your children from birth to believe has value even though it is obviously pointless. You have no right to FORCE your INFERIOR culture on people.

Everyone should speak 1 language to make things easier, if you want to learn other languages go right ahead, but don't let the fact you like shoving things up your ass or whatever you think is so great about your 'culture' interfere with making the world a better place.

I'm not trying to force my culture on you either, I don't give a fuck about English either, language should be totally logical, like equations or something, the simplest method of communicating possible. That way we can concentrate on pushing communication to new levels that were physically impossible with all the drivel we have to learn alongside inferior languages.

Discuss.

Name: Anonymous 2006-08-22 18:29

"You weren't even aware that English orthography is one of the most inconsistent systems in use. If you don't even know the language you're arguing for, it's safe to assume that you don't know much about languages at all."
Orthography is a system of writing that can easily be changed or improved. No writing system is perfect or has been scientifically based as of yet, so your claim that English orthography is better or worse is due to your desperation to try to find a believable lie that English is a somehow terrible and awful langauge compared to others.

"Yeah. Let's just use French instead, it already has all the "definitions"."
But English has more definitions. Definitions are important, since what a word means is quite an important part of language. Why did you put "definitions" in inverted commas?

"It's the least common denominator in many cases currently. Scientists still speak their native languages and scientific literature is available in all relevant languages. Might as well teach them German as a second language in the future, who cares?"
A universal language will make it easier to communicate complex concepts.

"I've destroyed all arguments you came up with. (English is simple, English is logical, English is the only language with a decent and up-to-date vocabulary... etc.)"
So what were arguments you used which I have not defeated in debate?

"You haven't even proved that English provides "more definitions" than other languages. (hint: word count doesn't say much here)"
Yes I have. English is the most widely used language and is used extensively in world class universities and scientific institutions. Since you hate me for being black, at least listen to wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
I would accept the argument that elements from other languages could be transplanted to the new universal language, however according to you English is inferior, whilst all other langauges are better. This is possible related to your racism, but I'm not your psychologist so I won't jump to conclusions.

"You're trying too hard to bring "cultures" into this. What "culture" do you think I'm part of? All western countries have the same culture anyway. And I'm not a sand nigger or something."

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