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English isn't the only language on earth, and it's not the only language that music, literature, etc. appear in.A little diversity won't kill you, and there's no need to hate something just because it's not your language.
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As a lover of foreign languages, this stamp is cool.
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Romance languages are formed from a far more logical way than English. Words come from roots using affixes, while in English they have random origins and no connections. Words in English just don't relate. If you learn Latin and start joining prefixes and suffixes, it becomes a whole new game, far more interesting than random and nonsensical words.
Then there are those cases like "oval" and, obviously, "ovo", which in English is "egg", but without "eggal". And I could go on and on with hundreds of cases where Romance consistency and familiarity of words wins tremendously.
Oval, ovo/egg.
Aquatic, aqua/water.
Accord, concord, corage, cor/heart.
Unique, union, un/one.
Language, linguistic, lingua/tongue.
Terrain, subterranean, terrestrial, terra/land, to atterrate/to land...
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I just want sign language to be taught in schools, because to me it makes more sense to be able toΒ communicate withΒ everyone in your own country than with people in countries you may never visit. I do enjoy learning Spanish though.
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I agree! Sign language is cool
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I can think of some advantages that non-English languages have over English. Non-English first names are usually MUCH prettier than English first names. Many other languages also sound prettier, especially Italian and French.
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Yes. Remember Goethe's Faust. In German, itt's better.
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Whoops... I mean it's...
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Still, Norwegian is the most beautiful language.
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Often English is the best, because it has a very vaste vocaboulary.
If you listen songs in italian (for example), words seem written in a random way, because italian vocaboulary is quite poor.
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I hate going on Spanish videos on YouTube and seeing "English plz" in the comments. :-/
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Sure, English is not the only language on earth, but I think it is one of the most beautiful languages on earth 
I hate my language... God, why do I have to be German
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Are you kidding me.
Deutsch ist die beste Sprache.
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That's so weird to me because I am American, don't really care for English, and absolutely ADORE the German language! 
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I wanna learn Japanese or Swedish 
V Ignore that comment lolol
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I speak Japanese and I'm learning Norwegian. My family used to live in Japan(military reasons).
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Gah. I agree so much. At least you have some diversity, we only have Spanish! 
I JUST WANT TO LEARN GERMAN DANG IT.
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Only.. Spanish..
Really no offense to someone, but I do not want to learn Spanish... at all. xD
German sounds cool too. ;A; Why can't they give us good languages to learn. :c
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I know. Not all of us are going to oblige to the mexicans who do not wish to learn our language... I do not wish to learn theirs! I plan on going to Germany anyway.
I wish they would. QAQ
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Gosh, I like music in so many languages~
Russian, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Arabic...
Yeah...@_@''
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I LOVE this stamp! I hate how people think English is the only language. Yes, it is widely spoken across the world, but it is not the only one. I'm learning Polish right now also since I'm Polish c:
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english is grammatically one of the worst languages anyone can learn... it's way harder than lets say french. But it's very userful.
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And it never hurts to learn about English before judging it.
Some retard told me Spanish was more widely spoken then English
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While it definitely isn't always the better language, it is the main language used in a very large economy, even though that economy is pretty crumbled right now. So as a way to make the market accessible, people learn English. This doesn't mean language diversity is bad, though, just that there are often reasons why English is used as commonly as it is or, perhaps, why people are clinging onto it too.
At least this is my thoughts on why. I personally think that learning more languages is fantastic, since it removes language barriers between you and a ton of other people, along with your mention on music, literature, shows and et cetera.
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We meet again.
Even though English is very powerful, it lacks some modularity and logic. It also lacks purity. But the thing I'll give it is that it can be very expressive and it lacks genders, making it easier.
I like German since it has a tidy writing and word building system and it has many cool words. It is also very pure, so its structure stayed more stable than English did.
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Indeed, we do.
And out of curiosity, I just want to know on what you mean when you say English lacks modularity and logic, along with it lacking purity. In part, it's because I don't understand what they mean in the context of this topic. =/
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Well, it's less lacking logic and more lacking tidiness/neatness. English, as a human language, acquired it's vocabulary over a long time from many languages and those words aren't always brought in consistantly and the same rules don't always apply. For example, Germanic words can be merged, but Latin words can't, like "windhome" vs. "ventilationhome".
Oddities in English can be hard to see, but they're there.
For example, won't = will not... wait, where the hell did "o" come from?
Many people think it isn't a big deal, but I laugh when a person who claims to be a perfectionist doesn't consider linguistic factors in his/her life.
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The "o" came from the "o" in not ...
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Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining it for me then. And now thinking about it, yeah. Where the hell does that "o" come in?
And for your last paragraph, I sometimes consider myself perfectionist at times, though never truly am 100%. Though for someone to claim to be a perfectionist all the time, you're spot-on when they'd have to consider every single factor, inclusive of linguistics.
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I speak portuguese and english (at least enough to understand something hahaha). Nowadays I'm learning japanese and intend to learn irish and german <3
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Good luck; those languages are quite tough!
Portuguese is wonderful 
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I am learning and I speak shitty German.
ich lerne spanisch jetzt und ich sprache scheissdeutsch schon, ich vergesse alles des deutsches, so ich wirklich brauche deutsch mehr uben.
I am forgetting all of my German so I really need to practice German.
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German is indeed hard. Four years of studying and I still f*ck up the adjective endings and the genders. But it's still my favorite language and it will always be.
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Very true, but it's the only language I speak fluently.
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Diversity is what makes the world colorful
My mom says that I'm born in America, and I'm Filipino, with some Spanish, Chinese, and a bit of Italian blood
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Yup exactly, I speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese and very proud of it! I'm currently learning a 4th language
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As a matter of fact, of all the languages I'm familiar with, English is probably the second most underdeveloped and primitive language I know of, as well as the second youngest. (the first one being Romanian).
It's virtually impossible to work with it because every time you translate something into English from a much more complex language, much of the content is lost. Really, I translate into English for a living and it's a pain, because I sometimes have to rewrite entire sentences, sometimes break them into two or more, for them to make sense in english.
I'm begining to think the only reason it's so wide-spread is because an eight year old can learn it in less than four years just by watching television.
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Actually, I heard that English is one of the hardest languages to learn: [link]
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Yes, that explains why half of the civilized world speaks it as a second language.
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I guess....
I also heard that English has a rich history to: [link]
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I want German to have the position as the scientific language as it once was before English stole its spot. German is more fit for the job, anyway.
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That hardly surprises me seeing how much it changed in the past 1000 something years. There was plenty for recorded history to remember, whereas the history of many other languages was more or less forgotten, by the time they were first written down, and didn't change that much since then. Old and even middle english requires an interpreter to be fully understood, while I can recite the Funeral Sermon from the Pray Codex to a 10 year old, and they would have no trouble understanding it.
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