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I don't think everyone in the world should all speak the same language because there would be no variety
It's been predicted that within a couple of hundred years, the only languages left will be English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese. Why? When homo sapiens "began", they all spoke the same language. Then they went their seperate ways, needing new words for new things, but had no chance of telling these to their "old friends", so new languages formed. Since there was almost no communication back then, languages continued to grow different. But now, people are communicating across borders again, quickly and often. Languages borrow words from each other all the time now, and that's not gonna end.
Of course, this is just the predicted course, but to me it sounds likely. Just like separation meant new languages, I think the current reunion of people will mean that old languages will die, and only the major ones will survive.
Anyway, to the main point of what we were talking of - I don't understand what you mean with "more variation and less approximation with F". Do you suggest that C is inaccurate?
It's been predicted that within a couple of hundred years, the only languages left will be English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese. Why? When homo sapiens "began", they all spoke the same language. Then they went their seperate ways, needing new words for new things, but had no chance of telling these to their "old friends", so new languages formed. Since there was almost no communication back then, languages continued to grow different. But now, people are communicating across borders again, quickly and often. Languages borrow words from each other all the time now, and that's not gonna end.
Of course, this is just the predicted course, but to me it sounds likely. Just like separation meant new languages, I think the current reunion of people will mean that old languages will die, and only the major ones will survive.
Anyway, to the main point of what we were talking of - I don't understand what you mean with "more variation and less approximation with F". Do you suggest that C is inaccurate?
