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Post by BlueDolphin on Mar 16, 2004 22:34:13 GMT -5
But having translators will be cumbersome in one country. It may work in diplomatic and UN areas, but the inefficiencies will start to show on a large scale. For example, laws will have to be written in many languages. Public signs and items (such as trashcans which I notice have English Spanish and Russian on it) will have to be made available in many languages depending on the location.
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Post by AZERTY on Mar 16, 2004 23:19:21 GMT -5
By the time we become a WWN, already most of the languages will have slowely lost use... Their will probably be between 5 and 6 commonly used languages...
Furthermore, of these 5 or 6, everybody will probably know one of two languages (having learnt them at school etc...) so that really their will only have to be translations for 1 or 2 languages...
Even then, demographics will probably prevent every part of the world neeeding multiple language signs.... so that really it woudnt be much different thatn today.
Think about it logically. If somebody from China, wanted to come to the US, they would learn English, rather than expect sighns in chinese.. Plus this wouldnt help much since they would have a hard time speaking to others....
As a result, regardless of the languages that are lost or the languages that spring up, it will not in any way effect a WWN badly... (except that in that respect it might make cultural identification easier, and therefore prevent an effective unification.)
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Post by Haku on Mar 17, 2004 0:01:32 GMT -5
perhaps if we all had our own languages, then one language that everyone knew, like in the book "The Neverending Story"
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Post by AZERTY on Mar 17, 2004 8:59:04 GMT -5
that would be one possibility...
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Post by bezzerkker on Mar 17, 2004 18:24:22 GMT -5
That could be a difficulty though, because you have to get everyone to agree on one language, or invent one.
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Post by BlueDolphin on Mar 17, 2004 18:36:21 GMT -5
perhaps if we all had our own languages, then one language that everyone knew, like in the book "The Neverending Story" This is exactly my idea! ;D Although Berzerkker is right that difficulty would be encountered. But for greater efficiency, it must happen eventually. I think there was once a universal language invented called "Esperanto" but it never caught on. and AZERTY even, if demographics tone down the need for signs, it would be inhernetly inefficient to run the world on unstandardized languages. Why run on several, when we can run on one?
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Post by AZERTY on Mar 17, 2004 18:44:42 GMT -5
No, I know, all I am saying is that no matter what happens, I dont think that any amount of languages could really pose a problem in a world wide Nation. This is simply proven by the fact that the world is run now quite efficiently and there are a lot of languages... and the government running the nation could simply use translators. In general it wouldnt be a problem.
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Post by BlueDolphin on Mar 17, 2004 19:11:42 GMT -5
But languages do encourage the seperation of populations. Naturally, people do not wish to communicate as much with people who do not speak the same language because it is more inconvinient. Therefore having regions divided on language could encourage more of the "divided" mentality in the population which could hamper unification.
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Post by AZERTY on Mar 17, 2004 22:07:00 GMT -5
thats true... but as I said before hand, once the world is unified, then, seperation becomes a very small problem if handled correctly... And, the lack of a universal language might retard the growth of such a Universal nation, but I have never said that such a nation will come to being any time soon.
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Post by Arachis on Mar 18, 2004 0:14:01 GMT -5
yes.... but what if that never happens?
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