It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A different language is a different vision of life.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.