When/if the European Union becomes a federal state (and it is going in that direction), there needs to be one official language, which is to be the state language and that for inter-ethnic communication.
Latin, being the official language of the Catholic church and the long-deceased Roman empire sounds like the ideal choice, since it's not the language of a nation currently existing (unlike English).
Latin is the foundation for many European languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian). Its vocabulary should not be difficult to learn for any European. Its spelling, pronunciation and grammar are all easy as well.
What do you think?
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Anonymous2010-11-19 0:24
Sounds like a bunch of popery to me.
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Anonymous2010-11-19 2:46
It'll end up being either Esperanto or Klingon; quote me on that.
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Anonymous2010-11-19 6:13
It should be English, the international language of business and pretty much the world's second language.
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Anonymous2010-11-19 7:55
>>4
International languages can shift. Now that China is gaining ground in economy and world affairs, Chinese might just become the new English by 2050.
Interesting because most international products are written in both English and/or French and Spanish.
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Anonymous2010-11-19 19:51
>>5
What's your point? If the EU picked any language and stuck with it it would be static.
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Anonymous2010-11-20 8:23
>>5
Why do you believe China is going to take over the world? You can't believe it's double digit growth rates are anything but closing the technology gap, there are also many English speaking countries scattered across the world, in particular India and South Africa, while China's language is divided into mandarin, yue, wu and min making translation more expensive. >>6
Spanish is a strong international language, if anything English is going to face competition from Spanish, not Chinese.
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Anonymous2010-11-20 12:35
>>8
Also the only people who speak Chinese are...Chinese.
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Anonymous2010-11-20 16:09
Latin has a home in Europes former glory as part of the Roman Empire and thanks to the Catholic church and the European powers, could be picked up with ease again, once Europe retakes its rightful place as a superpower and crushes those dastardly Americans. Ave Europa.
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Anonymous2010-11-22 0:22
They were thinking of proposing Esperanto as the language of the League of Nations when it was founded in 1919. Why not Latin instead of some fake constructed language?
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Anonymous2010-11-22 0:56
I think we should wait and see what's out there before adapting a new official language. There's no point in learning Latin now when we might have to learn Galactic Basic Standard 50 years later.
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Anonymous2010-11-22 10:00
esperanto was the speech which was deserved to learn but it failed in any way
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Anonymous2010-11-22 10:11
We should all speak Armenian because that was the language spoken by Jesus.
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Anonymous2010-11-24 8:07
>>14 yEAH rIGHT, jESUS iS dEAD jUST lIKE aEMENIAN.
We could create a new language with grammar based on logic and which uses the simplest most straight forward to pronounce and clear sounds which are audible in a wide range of situations, possibly even something that can be emulated easily with hand signals or morse code.
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Anonymous2010-11-24 16:13
>>17
That would be great, I loved Inspector Morse.
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Anonymous2010-11-28 12:43
>>3
Methinks, somewhat seriously, Interlingua would be a better fit.
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Anonymous2010-11-28 17:25
>>17
Who needs new languages? We've got tons of old ones that are just as good that have fallen into disuse.
Like ancient Sumerian (early-period). Let's rediscover ancient Sumerian.
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Anonymous2010-11-30 1:25
lain
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Anonymous2010-11-30 5:43
>>20
There are no mainstream languages based on logic, we will be needing one right here.
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Anonymous2010-11-30 5:59
>>20
What's the Summerian word for car? Airplane? Computer? Nigger?
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Anonymous2010-11-30 11:16
Language will be forbidden in the EU apart from simple Newspeak. All white people will be killed and made into food for jews
>>30
You could have used any number of over the 1 million words in the English language, yet you chose that one at the end. You know what you were doing, don't be coy. And this is world4ch, always has been, always will be.
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Anonymous2010-12-01 5:39
>>31
Don't get me wrong, I hate all the racist posts, I always "Tsk." them, but words aren't inherently racist.
>>31
The strange thing is: Sumerian problably had a word for "nigger".
All kind of people existed at that time, in contrast to all the mentioned objects.
>>36
I wouldn't know, I'm not versed in ancient long dead languages like Sumerian. You'll have to find and ask someone who's versed in such at your local university. Probably something along the lines of "Ancient Linguistics", historical script.