Guys, I got it. The last hinder to progress. Language. People

>>8848040
Is this bait?

>>8848040
>People can't work together when they don't speak the same language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

>>8848061
The whole point of that story was as soon as God introduced languages people weren't able to finish their blasphemous tower and went separate ways. This is what happens when people don't go to sunday school.

>>8848093
>This is what happens when people don't go to sunday school.
yet here you are trying to anger Him into doing it again...

>>8848098
I'm not OP. Not often I see people capitalize the H. Nice.

This is some 1984 shit

Just think about it.

Knowing what words mean takes up a large part of our memory. If one can recall why a "poodle" is not a "doodle", and a "scourge" is not a "scours", is because some part of his or her brain has been dedicated to these distinctions.

Therefore, we could free up a whole lot of space by using less words. On average, there are already many of them which we don't use. Let's make it official and delete them forever.

I believe that if we got to the bare minimum of words, people would more easily understand each other. This is true in science.

Understanding a topic is 90% learning words and how to make sentences with them. If there were less words, it'd be quicker to read a topic.

>>8848040
Create an emoji-based language

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>>8848040
Create a visual language using technology and VR.

doubleplusgood idea

>>8848040
There's probably what, four major languages in use at the moment between developing nations?

English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian

Most euro nations pick up English as a secondary language and can communicate with the UK and burgers just fine.

>- Remove useless words.
>>8848467
fucking this.

not to sound like a bumper sticker, but 1984 was not an instruction manual

abolish all languages except esperanto so i can finally have someone to talk to in the only 2ndary language i know

>>8848040
>Guys, guys, wait... Esperanto, ammi right?

I'm hopeful that most languages will naturally go extinct thanks to globalization.

I've heard the argument that language heavily affects our thought processes and thus it would be important to preserve diversity in our thinking via preserving languages, but trying to do so for every shitty language on earth is bound to be more harmful than good for us. Most are very closely related to each other anyway and definitely won't help you suddenly see in four spatial dimensions.

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>>8848484
>>8849227
>esperanto

The point is not to make everyone learn a fancy new language, but only to remove the current clutter in english that was artificially made up by crazy ass writers.

The goal is to refocus the language on communication and comprehension.

This is for example the goal of "simple english wikipedia" https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Of course, this is just wikipedia (=not really great). But the potential for a simpler and smarter language is here.

>>8849639
I share the same thought as yours.

To wield 2 or 3 languages depicts cognitive versatility. But caring about one gibberish dialect that produced little to no reading material, and that isn't useful in itself, is just searching a way of enclosing oneself.

>>8848469
Also German... And if you get a more global approach, also Swahili (South Africa), Arab (North Africa and Middle East), Indonesian (one of the fastest growing population), Spanish (Latin america), French (in Europe and Africa)...

So, yeah. We are not near a linguistic homogeneity. And because of that, learning resources have to be translated in every language. Which, of course, reduce overall the ability of teaching the population.

>>8849691
i just want other people to learn esperanto so we can talk in a fun language together

>>8849694
Dude you need to go out and meet some actual friends