John Mcwhorter's The Cosmopolit The Means Of A Different Language

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People complain about not being able to understand a person because they speak a different language. People complain because they might have to point at everything they want and it slows everything down. People complain a lot because some languages are very difficult to learn, but they have to learn that language so they can travel. Kids that go to public schools might not ever be able to communicate with another kid. Choosing one language that everybody has to learn and be able to communicate would solve all these problems and so much more. There would be less confusion in the world and everybody would be able to communicate better. Today, the world has around “6,000 languages” that exist (Mcwhorter 429). According to John Mcwhorter, author of“The …show more content…

Everybody can still learn their native language, but they also have to learn the other language, so people could talk to non-native people, and they can talk back. People might bring up how hard it would be to let people decide on just one language. Yes, this would be a big issue, but the language should be one that is written and spoken like when Mcwhorter says “ Japanese is enshrined as the language of not only speech but education, literature, and journalism…”(434). He is saying that this language will be around “As long as there are Japanese people meeting and raising children in Japan” (Mcwhorter 434). There are a lot of people speaking it, it 's written, and spoken that’s why it won’t die anytime soon. If people still don’t agree with, that then the United Nations could get together and decide for everybody. Any language would be hard to learn, according to Mcwhorter that “ Each language is hard in its own way”( 433). The younger you learn the language the easier it would be to learn because it 's easier for a kid to learn a language than someone that is

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