World Languages
Why we need so many languages I mean it is okay with 1 language and easy to communicate?
2 Answers
That was the idea behind Esperanto but it is still not as popular as Zamenhoff thought it would be.
I admit that Marg's answer (¡como siempre!) is the most pragmatic and well-thought. However, I'd like to chime in with why I personally would detest a future in which we all spoke and thought in the same way. Because it would mean the destruction, or at best the desertion of a wonderful world of differences and further progress towards a cultural gelatinization that seems extremely blase and unappetizing to me.
A common language would seem like the ideal solution to promote uniformity, communication, tolerance and eliminate social diseases like racism, but I can't but help wonder whether it is just good on paper. I see people harrassing and harming each other without reason regardless of what language the other speaks. Would it matter whether someone screamed 'help', 'bachao', 'madad karo' or 'ayuda' while being robbed in open daylight? Would it stop you if you were the robber? I personally wouldn't.
You posted this in vocabulary and grammar, so I am not going to continue the philosophical discourse any longer. To answer your question, we need so many languages because there are still many thoughts in the minds of many people that simply won't find expression in any one language.
To me, it seems that such a common, shared language would cause groups of people to develop their own 'personal, with-friends-only terminology', so we will basically have dialects instead of languages that perform the same function: obscure meaning, lend subtle tones to communication, create everyday mysteries.
(get ready for a horrible Spanish translation. You have been warned)
Me parece que la respuesta de Marg, como siempre, tiene el más razon. Sin embargo, quiero decirte el razon a causa de que no me caería bien un futuro en que todos nosotros hablemos y pensemos en la misma manera, porque significa la destrucción o, en el mejor caso, la deserción de un mundo maravilloso de diferencias y progreso hacia un unión de culturas que me parece sumamente desagradable y sin gusto.
Un idioma común parece como la solución de todos problemas como racismo, problemas de comunicacion, falta de tolerancia etc, pero me pregunto si es una idea que sólo parece buena y realmente es ineficaz. Veo personas robando otras personas sin considerar su nacionalidad y idioma. ¿Es importante que la persona quien se roba grita 'help', 'bachao', 'madad karo' o 'ayuda' en pleno día? ¿Te paría si fueras el ladrón? No me paría, es seguro.
Has puesto en 'Vocabulary and Grammar'. así que no voy a seguir a escribir esta respuesta. Mi respuesta de tu pregunta: necesitamos tanto idiomas porque hay muchas ideas en las mentes de muchas personas que no pueden expresar en otro idioma, especialmente un idioma común.
Me parece que un idioma común crearía grupos que crearía su 'idioma personal'. Es decir, tendríamos dialectos en lugar de idiomas. No diferencia y con las mismas funciónes: oscurecer sentido, comunicar sentidos sutiles, crear diarios misterios.
