There were many lingua francas of which French was supposedly the first global lingua franca. That changed and it became English (from what I understand). We will probably see another language become the lingua franca, so my question is: should it be English? Are there better candidates out there? Why / why not?
It sounds badass. The script looks dope. It is much richer in vocabulary than English. I say let’s do it!
Opinions really differ on that 🤣 And every language has rich vocab.
I was kinda expecting something along the lines of linguistics e.g Arabic has no gender, the script is alphasyllabic, it’s Subject Object Verb, sentences have strict structure, or something like that. Just a personal opinion isn’t really convincing, unfortunately.
Nah I mean I have some friends and they told me a camel has like 50 different names depending on how old it is and what it’s doing right now, e.g. a female camel who gave birth three months ago or a sitting camel or a camel that drinks an unusual amount of water (I’m making up stuff rn) would have their own names. Or here’s a list of date cultivars, there are like tens of names for the different types of dates it wild: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_cultivars
Otherwise I was honestly just kidding. It’s an interesting question but realistically it’s gonna be English and imo kids should learn English from kindergarten on and people would be bilingual like in India, or Kurds, Amazigh, Sudanese people who are native speakers in Arabic and their own local language. We could have all administration EU wide be bilingual too and that would honestly make it so much easier for everyone to move around and also for migrants that we desperately need to come here.
But with fascism being cool again I‘m afraid we’re moving far away from what I have in mind.