What centeral language would be best for a world government?

A world government would have to be careful not to show favoritism. English is the de facto world language, but making it the de jure world language would cause problems. They would either have to refrain from establishing an official language or would have to pick an auxiliary language.

 

Problems like what? What problems could there possibly be that are worth to consider? It wouldn't be favouritism, it would be practical. English wouldn't be chosen just because we all love the english, it would be chosen because it's practical. If there were several language with as good credentials as english, you could say it would be favouritism to pick english. But there's no such languages.

 

A world government would be incredibly unstable. If they alienated one group of people, it could result in the collapse of the entire government.

 

Any group which would feel alienated because we chose english wouldn't be a group whose opinions we should care about, and not the kind of people who should be part of a world government to begin with. Quite frankly, exclude them from the world government. If you can collapse the government for such a silly thing, don't be part of it.

 

As this world relies on financial transaction to operate...I would recommend we use a language already in place for most activities.

Thus I go with English.

 

If you exclude them, then it's not a world government.

 

And I suppose that's why a world government is a stupid idea.

 

Agreed.

 

I voted other. A language other than one's own takes a longer time to learn, once you are an adult, for most people. So a sign language, using the hands, arms, head, more complex than the sign language used when American settlers communicated with the Amerindians is what would be the easiest to learn, a new one, that combines sign language used by the people who cannot hear or talk.

Then no one gets jealous or pissed off that their own native language was not chosen.

The first sign in this new sign language would use almost a universal sign, for " f### off", the arm bent at the elbow, with the middle finger stuck upwards, with the other fingers curled down. The next one, would be shoving the index finger of one hand, through an eyelet made by the other hand, in and out. Of course, what that signifies should be obvious, so no need to write it in words. And of course done together with a big smile and then the tongue being shoved in and out of the mouth. If it twirled, this would tell the other person a detail of what is being asked for.

A sign, unlike a voiced word, can say a thousand words.

 

You say this as if this does not happen anyway in present state of government, and after all, plenty of people alienate Muslims (which I do not agree with), and so far the American or European governments haven't collapsed.

 

Muslims are irrelevant in the west. In the world, they are not.

 

TlhIngan nIvbogh! (Klingon is the best!)

 

Really? Muslims are irrelevant in the west? They didn't seem irrelevant after the Paris attacks, or 9/11, after those incidents all the west could think of was Muslims, or ISIS, or Osama Bin Laden.

 

Point being that western governments could alienate all the muslims in their countries and it wouldn't matter, because muslims are few and unimportant in the west. They couldn't do much. In the world however, muslims are not few and unimportant, that's the point.

 

Any European languages, exclude Spanish.

 

Modified language. As in, dissent, defiance and resistance in opposition to a one world government.

 

I say French. I'm already either offended or disappointed by our provincial government depending on whether it's PQ or Liberal, so I'm used to bad government in French.