English should be designated as the world's language

[DonCoquixote]

136. Some good and bad

One the one hand:

English is a pidgin tongue, made when a bunch of French, Germans, Celts, Romans and Scandinavians found themselves on some island that was South of Iceland (aka Britain.) It is not as elegant as some, but that is because it allows itself to absorb other words. Look at these words:

Nuance (French), Zeitgeist (German), Ninja (Japan), Jumbo (Swahili), Alcohol (Arabic), Ketchup (Chinese), these words and many more are words that would not work with other languages, but English can make them work together.

On the other hand:

We do need to be careful that a language does not become an instrument of cultural dominance. Every Language can be corrupted into that, certainly English, French, Latin, Arabic and others have been used to undermine native cultures out of existence. The ideal thing would be two have several commonly known languages...but ones that are NOT artificial, ones that have active development, from newspapers to web sites to radio broadcasts.

As much as I love Esparanto (Bonvenon!), it is simply not that widespread,and it does have a very European bias. I do not know if it is possible to make an Asian equivalent,perhaps something that mixes Korean, Japanese, Hindu and Mandarin, but even if they could, it would still be one voice among many.