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| Speak and Listen |
If I could change one thing
about the designed world or about life in the designed world, it would be to
unify languages into a common global one. Imagine a world in which people communicate
with each other through one mother tongue: they could understand each other
with ease and reduce misunderstandings. It would also end many controversies
and the need for translations or interpreters. Moreover, people do not need to spend
time on learning foreign languages, and they will not be ridiculed over the
nonstandard accent or grammar. According to an on-line article written by
Canico, “[being] able to communicate with people from all over the world would
open up huge opportunities for work, study, and relationships” (Canico). However,
some might say, “[when] languages become extinct this results in the loss of a
uniqueness and cultural identity which was embedded within it” (Jade). Languages
are surely related to their ethnic culture, and losing the language is
equivalent to losing the ethnicity. But when we think about everything using
one uniform language, we might create one (the language is one) or several new
cultures – there are many different races in the world, after all.
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| Making the Global Village closer |
Having one
language would not only make worldwide communications easier, but also bring
the Global Village closer. With more advantages than disadvantages, unifying
the languages into one would not be a bad idea. Therefore, having everyone
speaking in the same language would be the one thing that I would like to
change about this designed world.
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