A Language for Everyone
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
e he said it in front of me. Then there's my parent's generation. Things were very "groovy" back then. Oh really? Well nowadays, they're "off the hook." Bottom line is that it would be very hard to enforce a universal language, or even get everyone on earth to learn it. Ideally, you'd have to wait for all the old-timers to die off, since they wouldn't want to change, force everyone to forget about their heritage, and have everyone, no matter his age group or location, use the same terminology. But once the older generations start to die, then the middle-aged folks take their place. So you see, it really would have to be forced onto everyone, including those set in their ways. Next thing you know, my mom would be calling me from California saying that she went to the money-mover last night so she could go to the new mall with her amigos today because it was "off the hook." I'd think she had gone mad! Could our world have a universal language? Even if we had a universal language! imple as getting cash before going out to eat was a problem. We both spoke the same language; we were from the same country, yet we still have out differences. Let's not forget about different generations in the United States and their terminology. The younger generations are continuously creating and re-creating words and lingo to match their own personality and ever-changing culture. I'm sure that if an elderly person were to listen to a r
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