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Why do you think English is the best candidate for the universal language, how do you define simplicity?

Why do you think English is the best candidate for the universal language, how do you define simplicity? First of all, pronunciation and spelling are almost unrelated and you have to learn them separately. That results in really different accents throughout the world. Even if you look at AmE and BrE, they differ much at the word level. Which one you want to choose? Besides, personally I find English really ambiguous and density of idioms in average text repelling, although that's only a subjective opinion. Usage of Latin alphabet in English seems like it's on plus, but there's at least one language that uses that simple alphabet better. > Besides. UTF-8 is broken because it doesn't allow for constant time random character and length counting. And why you'd want that? And how do you define length? Are you a troll?

Posted by krdln on Mar 18, 2015, 4:17 AM

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Why do you think English is the best candidate for the universal language, how do you define simplicity?

krdlnMar 18, 2015, 4:17 AM

Why do you think English is the best candidate for the universal language, how do you define simplicity? First of all, pronunciation and spelling are almost unrelated and you have to learn them separately. That results in really different accents throughout the world. Even if you look at AmE and BrE, they differ much at the word level. Which one you want to choose? Besides, personally I find English really ambiguous and density of idioms in average text repelling, although that's only a subjective opinion. Usage of Latin alphabet in English seems like it's on plus, but there's at least one language that uses that simple alphabet better. > Besides. UTF-8 is broken because it doesn't allow for constant time random character and length counting. And why you'd want that? And how do you define length? Are you a troll?

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