Do you expect everyone to eventually speak the same language?

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Started by Legend, Aug 01, 2018, 08:38 PM

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Legend

3rd option: everyone dies first.  

I think option 2 is in my lifetime.  

I kinda doubt option 1 will happen.  Some cultures are very protective of their languages .
For cultural reasons many people would continue to know the local language but they'd still use the universal language for most communication.

Also I was thinking about it, and I think it's OK for languages to die just as long as knowledge of the language doesn't die with them. Modern dictionaries and translation software are very close to being able to preserve a language for historical reasons. Just in the same way that we can still appreciate historical math and numeral systems even though no one uses them anymore.