Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 24, 2011

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    TURTLE  almost 13 years ago

    Tower of Babel here we come.

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    dkendraf  almost 13 years ago

    :D So much for taking over the world with good girl behavior! LOLOLOL

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    Ida No  almost 13 years ago

    If it’s a common world-wide, global language, I vote for Assembler.

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    FatTonyBalducci  almost 13 years ago

    pretty soon we’ll all be speaking Cantonese

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    Varnes  almost 13 years ago

    Yeah? Something tells me that you’re not going to like the answer, either…

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    weasel_monkey  almost 13 years ago

    Based on the number of countries that use it for commerce, tourism and general communication – English is the winner here. If you want to look at numbers of people using a language then there might be an argument for Cantonese.

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    Hugh B. Hayve  almost 13 years ago

    Read the instructions? What guy ever does that?

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    GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    New TV’s come with instructions?

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    CaptainKiddeo  almost 13 years ago

    Garrison Keillor once claimed he had listened to a lecture on "Esperanto: The Universal Language (if everyone would learn it…)

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    psychlady  almost 13 years ago

    Yes, Danae, someday you will rule the world!

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    rockngolfer  almost 13 years ago

    If we all spoke the same language we wouldn’t have websites like Engrish funny.http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/

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    tripwire45  almost 13 years ago

    Many countries have an official language. Might be helpful here.

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    alien07110  almost 13 years ago

    don’t forget, a short 600 years ago, the main language of civilized europe was french. before that it was latin. it may be english now, but that is subject to change.

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    Oh come on!  almost 13 years ago

    The manual was probably a poor English translation from Mandarin anyway.

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    Kali39  almost 13 years ago

    The reasons we will never have a world language. Because: 1) Polish has no vowels2) Hawaiian has no consonants3) English has no sense.

    :-)

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    bamboodan  almost 13 years ago

    I thought the universal language was chocolate? Or was that coffee? Or maybe chocolate coffee?

    Damn … made myself hungry/thirsty. Need another cuppa ….

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    hkyjckfjt  almost 13 years ago

    But then we’d understand everyone’s narcissistic nonsense.

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    Habogee  almost 13 years ago

    If there were just one language, local dialects would soon create a new Babel.

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    Dtroutma  almost 13 years ago

    Spoken Mandarin, but the written is a bear. English is commerce and transportation (as at airports), but it’s amazing how many “English speakers” no longer actually speak, write, or read it.

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    PShaw0423  almost 13 years ago

    It won’t have to “make” it anything; that will follow simply because it is the most powerful and influential (i.e., wealthiest) nation, and everyone else will want to do business with it in the most convenient way…no coercion needed..But coercion works too, of course. That’s why the common language of the Roman Empire was Greek rather than Latin, long after the dominance of the Greeks had ended. The Greeks imposed their language and culture on everyone they conquered, and it stuck; the Romans were more tolerant..No matter who ends up calling the shots eventually, I suspect that most of this century will be confusingly (and entertainingly) multicultural and multilingual.

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    dabugger  almost 13 years ago

    Oho, oho….we bettah all look our….gonna be somethen am afraid…..

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    Alms4Thorby  almost 13 years ago

    Nice 01, Rodney.

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    Hunter7  almost 13 years ago

    The rules state this is the language to rule us all.Please note, all rules are subject to change.

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    yawon  almost 13 years ago

    Mhfiewj jklcemw ejwollkje!

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    tex4056  almost 13 years ago

    Zamenhoff was about her age when he invented Esperanto.

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    Pygar  almost 13 years ago

    More people speak Klingon than Esperanto. And you can at least tell when you are talking to a Klingon. What do Esperaunties look like, and where do they come from?

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    Ernest Lemmingway  almost 13 years ago

    English is already the language of trade. Every First World nation now teaches it in mainstream schools simply because of that fact. But also keep in mind most nations are not First World, so no, it’s not the most widely spoken. Too many are busy struggling for the basics of survival to bother learning a second language like English, the second-most difficult language in the world (Basque comes in at first since it’s both entirely unrelated to any known language and spoken largely in my ancestral Euskal Herria).

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    steelersneo  almost 13 years ago

    The universal translator would be recognized. We have to transmit the message in Klingon.

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