If you had a magic wand, would you make everybody speak English and kill off all other languages?

**Tooting Carmen** · 03-05-2019, 09:28 PM

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**Latinus** · 03-05-2019, 09:32 PM

No, I like the diversity of languages the world offer.

**Tooting Carmen** · 03-05-2019, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by Latinus

No, I like the diversity of languages the world offer.

So do I. Like I said earlier, I am only playing devil's advocate.

**Tooting Carmen** · 04-23-2019, 03:22 PM

This is part of the bigger question: are languages primarily just about communication, or are they an expression of identity and history?

**Tooting Carmen** · 05-17-2019, 07:09 PM

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**~~Zmey Gorynych~~** · 05-17-2019, 07:20 PM

If destruction of language is the only option then I would destroy English for what it has become - a tool of globalization. It would be a futile act though because some other language would take its place.

**Ruggery** · 05-17-2019, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Creoda

I would make everyone outside of the Anglosphere (and Anglo-Americans) unable to speak it. Sick and tired of hearing the world's opinions.

That would be great because it would insulate the Anglo-sphere.

**Ruggery** · 05-17-2019, 07:30 PM

If I had a magic wand, it would make half of the people on earth (especially politicians) disappear like Thanos's style.

There will be fewer bad people in the world.