Topic: What if we had only one language? (Read 523 times)

It’s because we formed different little groups that shared experiences and ideologies.
Since we had no contact back then with one another, those who are in the same
group usually just had the same mannerisms or way of life which is a lot
different from those other groups from different parts of the world. I think at this point
it’s quite impossible to create one language that is universally accepted and spoken
by everyone.

The reason why God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel was, because people, working together under one language, would ultimately destroy themselves... ultimately fight God so that they would bounce off His almightiness into destruction. God didn't want that. That wasn't why he made people in the first place.

Consider... why are we building rockets to go to the moon and other planets? When you consider how much trouble it is, we might not even be able to do it. But if we can, there isn't any place out there that we know of, that has what we need just to live like the earth does. In fact, we don't really know everything that we need in a planet just to live. So, why are we trying to go? What is the "itch" that people have that makes them want to go to the stars?

If we put as much work into making the earth more habitable as we are into the space program, we could make the earth support a hundred billion. And certainly God would help us do this if we wanted to follow His ways.

Personally, I think that the reason why we feel the thrill of going to space is because that is where Satan is from. And he placed some of that feeling into us by genetically manipulating the forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve ate. Satan is using us to get back into space. The fruit of the Tree if the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Satan's start point to use people to get back to the stars... where he was kicked out of in the war with Michael the Archangel. We are pawns of the Devil.

The Tower of Babel was a way the people of that time were trying to get to the stars.

The title is so funny but however I believe that world would have been better place than what we have today, the world was operating in one language before  the rebellious act of building the tower of Babel, the effect of the different languages is one of the reasons why there tribalism  and certain level of favoritism, though their is no quarantee of having total peace and unity because even some families are in shambles of war among themselve.

This is very funny thinking though you are trying to make a point but let's leave the impossibility, God knows why he did it so, it is not possible to have one language here, he knows that the world will turn it into something else, the will use it to perpetrate evil,
When the world unite it might not be for good but for bad, so to me I will say that we should allow somethings to just be because their explanation may lead to things that are extra ordinary. This life has many untold secret we never can tell if the language stuff is one of them.

Peace is not based on language that is why we still see the same ethnic group having problems with themselves..
We do see the same family brothers fighting themselves just of little disagreement. Speaking the same language does not change anything that is why we need to know what we are doing and try to embrace peace without any worries.
Thins are happening I'm the world and there is need to us to understand the problem and why we are having problems with other people around us.

I don't think there would be more unity and less problems around the world if there was only one language.  I don't think language has much of an impact here.  Everyone is expressing his own attitude and emotions in his own language.  Moreover, English is the international language throughout the world.  One can express their opinion in English if they want.  I can't find the right logic that world peace will be established through the same language.  A spirit of sympathy and co-operation between one nation and another can create unity and solve problems in the world.

Peace and unity is something that even a brotherhood can not attained with guarantee talk more of a nonsignificant large entities where a unified language would be a solution to disputes and disunity.
Unification doesn't bring unity nor peace to the societies. What brings about peace is a personal self conducts to lawful abiding citizens and individuals with humanitarian heartedness.
Op, there in your home and localities where you exercises with one language spoken, I can bet it that there's is no peace and unity to a 100% degree therein. This is just something to say that one bad mind can corrupt multitudes of kinded minds if the evil mind is associated with the good ones. So to keep peace and unity up rolling into eh society disciplinary in am equality measures should be observed. Hence you can't eliminate sentimental at all rounds figures rather it can only be managed and distabilized on a depreciative figure.
Basically one language generally for all can't do it all rather it would only bring about familiarities.

Easier communication isn't necessarily a positive thing by definition. Globalisation has brought many good things to humanity, but also not so good ones, and speaking the same language could increase the tension between great world powers. While in China, Russia and USA/Europe speak their own languages and live in their own bubbles, the world is more peaceful than if we all spoke the same. Even the search engines are different. In fact, geopolitical problems usually arise when their political leaders meet to talk and don't share the same point of view.

Little by little these bubbles are getting more blurred, but as long as different ideologies remain primarily in separated territories, the balance is easier to maintain. My two cents.

it was one language from the days of old and God split it into different languages.the people where up to something by they want to see God which not possible at all.athough if it happened now it will Good we human.because everybody will each other as a brother or sister.it will never happen again at all, god has never go back to what he forbidden.

It'd not like God doesn't like the world to have one language but  just look at what human was doing with one language trying to reach the hevens and the kind of sin that was in the land during those times of nimrod.

Anyway having one language would really bring peace to the world cause all the wars and sentiment the world is having is an issue of race and language, the English man doesn't see the French man as his brother and therefore they would fight each other, so if the world had one language there would surely be peace.

What if we had only one language?


Note that, that was what the world was like at the Tower of Babel times. God didn't like it that way. So, He confused the languages so that we have so many languages nowadays.

As computers make it easier and easier to translate, and as the world goes into the mode of having like-one-language through computers... well, looks like Jesus will be returning, because God still doesn't like the one language thing.

However, it's quite interesting to look at the reason why God doesn't like it. It's written in the Bible in the history of the Tower of Babel.

Well, I believe that having only one language will make communication easier. There will be no requirement for interpretation or translation, and people will be able to understand each other better. This could result with higher commerce, teamwork, and creativity. However, other scholars of language think that having a single language will reduce imagination and creative thinking. They think that language variability enables the emergence of new ideas and conceptions. This could encourage peace. However, speaking one language would result in a loss of ethnicity and variation, which I do not think would be enjoyable, and there would be no need to travel because everyone speaks the same language.

Basically I don't see language as subject of peace or unity. let's buttress from the aspect of one country speaking one language like France which speaks french and has no other languages, can we say there is peace in France as country? of course no. they have different cases going based on 1 or 2 difference either from politics or from resources management etc.
Human are made in a way that every individual thinks in his or her own way which makes different actions to take place and this actions being opposed by the opposite thinker leads to conflict or crisis which means even if they are brothers from the same mother there is no guarantee for peace.

mind you peace is a subjective reality, it varies what you might be seeing as peace may not be peace in my own view so peace can not be determined by language.

What if is an imaginative statement; the truth is that the chance of having one language is narrow or does not exist. Language brings about relationships, but the thought of man can be different; that is where peace and unity come in. I think the reason we have so much language is because of the trust issue, which emanates from the thought of man.

Here is my conclusion about language bringing about peace and unity: if the whole world has one language, peace and unity only come and stay when the thoughts of men are the same. Although language can aid both, though and honesty will make it possible.

Comon language is not a guarantee for peace, human beings are insatiable and greedy. Have u not heard and seen cases where a brother kills his brother due to greed, or son kill his father. If human can kill his blood then what is language. Argument and dispute can never stop.

Speaking in one language will cause a lot of problems every country has a different culture. If the culture is different the speaking style is different. When we speak we use words in such a way that one develops a deep friendship with the other. Every country wants to keep their own language if it is the same then conflict will be created between all.

I don't think so. because In respective of different languages we have, we still have a general language English. Even if it's an England language. But I think many country has adopted it but there is still conflict in the world. The war that happens between different countries was not a language problem. For example the war between Russian and Ukraine wasn't because of language barrier.

Speaking only one language might actually Unite people And might also Bring about National integration
But the problem is that the World is made up of different continent , different cultures , ethnic groups , religion and all that. No country will like To forfeit her culture or language for any other country even they are been colonized By the same country yet they still Respect their tradition and ethnic believes .

Looking At the World in general there some countries with different states and differnt languages as well as cultural differences and each State has different tribes that also speak differnt languages, So speaking only one language in the World will be more or less diffcult To accomplish .

I don't think that speaking one language will make any difference with the way things are currently. It will be very easy to understand each other in any country or place that you find yourself, but this doesn't mean that evil people will not still exist because since the beginning of the world the devil has been there to poison humans mind to do evil due to greed.

War will be existing because even inside the same country that are speaking the same language people fights and commit so many atrocities. We are in a world that power must be exercised and the weak will be oppressed,this is human nature for you.

I'm also curious about what could be the result of this because, with this kind of scenario, we could go wherever we want in the world and talk to the people in any country and easily learn about their cultures, traditions, and histories. But this is not as easy as we think because one of the tactics of the nations who want to conquer others is to wipe out their language just like what the Westerners doing to the Arabs. No one knows how to speak Native Arabic in their country except the teachers and their students. the common folks and the laymen are speaking Modern Arabic which has some words from French, English, etc. Therefore, you can see that Russia and China are preserving their language no matter how much English popularity has gained in the world.