How My Language Impact Everyone There are roughly 5,000 or so languages in use in the world today. There have been grandiose plans by people in the past to create a universal language for the world. One example is a language published by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof over 100 years ago called "Esperanto," meaning "One who hopes." This language has no culture attached to it; it was created for the sole purpose of world communication. Not many people have even heard of this language, let alone use the language at all. It sounded great to Dr. Zamenhof to create this language, I"m sure, but let"s look at how realistic it is. Could this world one day have a functioning universal language? Let"s for a moment set aside the fact that there are thousands of languages spoken all over the world. Could it be feasible to get everyone on the same "sheet of music" per se? Maybe we could use a smaller scale. Let us use the United States for example. We have many factors that need to be taken into acco!.

             unt. The three most prominent could be age groups, ethnicity, family and friends. I think everyone has heard the saying that "you can"t teach an old dog new tricks." In this case the "dog" would be humans. It may not be that you can"t teach them, but maybe they just don"t want to learn. If someone has been speaking a certain language, or even in a certain way his or her entire life, who are we to ask them to change? Maybe a certain way of speaking or language is a person"s heritage. Who are we to ask them to forget it? We all have certain words and phrases that we use amongst our family and friends. Could someone ever stop that from happening? Language is something that cannot feasibly be regulated. I"d have to say that yes, a universal language could have its conveniences. One would be able to travel all around the world and always know what was being said. If you ran into trouble, you know that whomever would be able to understand you if you asked for help.