01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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The Wish for a Common Language
Wishing for everyone to speak a common language is an idea that people revisit and revisit, indifferent forms. It's always this allure of something that will be utopian or more easier. We're like the kind of mis universe wishing for world peace thing. But ye, i'm not a fad of it. This is definitely not like a debate style set up to day either. I should happily say that i agree, and i'm perhaps more realistic about the realities of humanity when it comes to an idealistic concept like this. So let's use it as an opportunity to talk about some of the interesting stuff that the wish for a common language has given ok. One of the best known
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