Glyphrunner May 18, 2009 09:44PM It's "God's" fault... supposedly, this omnipotent power decided to screw up everyone - probably on a bet with the angels.
Stepwise thinks May 18, 2009 10:08PM we're programmed to evolve, so the language would soon start evolving and eventually fragmented into different languages. Sorry, not trying
Feld May 18, 2009 11:34PM easier, but also duller, less private, less creative. Besides, we can already replace just about any word with either "smurf" or "plurk".
Margutta says May 19, 2009 12:29AM We may not have the common language because we've never had communication tool at a global scale such as plurk until today.
Margutta says May 19, 2009 12:30AM When thinking of it optimistically, the Common Internet Language can be in the future. It may be near to English
nothing funny says May 19, 2009 12:34AM read PK Dick and explore gutterspeak. English is losing its dominance.
Altreus says May 19, 2009 11:46AM Judging by this plurk and statistical extrapolation, we all *do* speak the same language!
Dren shares May 19, 2009 12:13PM “Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” Benjamin Lee Whorf
Schwarz says May 19, 2009 12:47PM JohnnyRyall: Chinese is spoken by much more people both here on plurk and in the real world
Glyphrunner May 19, 2009 02:37PM JohnnyRyall: The only way English can be considered as more prevalent is to examine the reach of the language. Per capita, English loses.
nothing funny says May 19, 2009 09:30PM French was once the dominant language, now it's English that is most widespread
Schwarz says May 20, 2009 07:31AM Depends on what 'dominat language' means. There are still more people who speak Chinese and Spanish than speak English
tveon thinks May 20, 2009 11:44AM China is likely to become the dominant super-power within this century, then Chinese will get just as widespread as English is today
