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[Keane]

I'd love it if everyone knew a universal language, though I'd say a majority of people know English these days. I guess when it comes to relationships with people from different countries it's a thing, as well as if internet friends were to meet. Could RPC actually meet and fully communicate in English in real life?

English is easy to learn though. It's a pretty basic. To fully learn Dutch you wouldn't have to just learn the language but also certain phrases, sayings, dialects, expressions, slang that has pretty much become part of everyone's vocabulary and sometimes there a lot of words to describe the same thing.

[Hunchman801]

Well today English is the international language, but a century ago it was French, so who knows what it will be in a hundred years?

[technology4617]

English is nice, but we could go back to Latin!

Latin could actually be really awesome international language, as its layout makes quite a bit of sense, and it seems to be a fairly easy language.

[Snagglebee]

English is nice, but we could go back to Latin!

Latin could actually be really awesome international language, as its layout makes quite a bit of sense, and it seems to be a fairly easy language.

Are you joking?! English is by far the most easiest language ever!

[technology4617]

Are you joking?! English is by far the most easiest language ever!

As a native English-speaker, I wouldn't know, though. I was just thinking that since the way Latin is structured makes a lot of sense to me.

[Adsolution]

I never understood why languages have the urge to assign genders to things that clearly don't have it.

[technology4617]

I never understood why languages have the urge to assign genders to things that clearly don't have it.

The bread is feminine, always remember that.

[OCG]

Are you joking?! English is by far the most easiest language ever!

You only think that because you hear the language every day probably so you are used to it.

[Hunchman801]

I never understood why languages have the urge to assign genders to things that clearly don't have it.

Countless things do not make any sense in languages, and it's not their purpose anyway. As long as people can communicate using them, why bother?

[Lum]

And why should English be the universal language anyway? I mean I can understand why you'd say that, I guess, but I think at least the people of the Earth should have a say in a universal language, if such an idea were to ever come about being.

That idea actually has existed. Some guy has created a language called Esperanto, nowadays it's still spoken, it's the most spoken artifically made language, but it doesn't have like lot's of speakers, but you can definitely some people who can speak it in a lot of countries, in any case the western countries. English replaced Esperanto though, the criticism on the English language is the fact that some people have English as a first language, which makes it unfair as an universal language for people who don't speak English as a first language.

I have some ideas for creating an universal language myself, and I have some idea about how to construct it, but I don't know if it will get popular and how to promote it.

[OCG]

You could always try

[Lum]

I'd love it if everyone knew a universal language, though I'd say a majority of people know English these days. I guess when it comes to relationships with people from different countries it's a thing, as well as if internet friends were to meet. Could RPC actually meet and fully communicate in English in real life?

English is easy to learn though. It's a pretty basic. To fully learn Dutch you wouldn't have to just learn the language but also certain phrases, sayings, dialects, expressions, slang that has pretty much become part of everyone's vocabulary and sometimes there a lot of words to describe the same thing.

There are English speakers who can speak Dutch quite well, almost unrecognizable as a foreigner for a Dutch person, because our languages are very similar. A probability is that the ancient Germanic tribes who moved from Denmark to the south and later to England already had certain expressions which were in this way incorporated in both Dutch and English. This would explain why we both use expressions like:

Dutch: Het is mijn missie om mensen blij te maken.

English: It's my mission to make people happy.

However this word exists in other languages too, this way of using the word seems to be only present in Dutch and English. I used an online dictionary for this one:

Dutch: als de kat weg is, dansen de muizen
English: when the cat's away, the mice will play

It is especially these kinds of expressions which particularly amaze me in the similarity, which means that we either used these expressions aftering hearing them from English/Dutch speakers, in which the other side started to use the same expression in their own language, or we already used these expressions in like 200 before Christ and we still use them in our seperated languages. There was a videoclip in which an English guy used Old English to communicate with a guy from Frisia, and guess what? The Frisian guy could actually understand something of what he said. Of all the Germanic languages, Frisian is the closest one to English, I guess the second-closest is Dutch and the third-closest could be German, but I 'm not sure. Although you can find back the relationship with English in German, it's harder to recognize for a person who knows nothing about German.

Here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34

[Hunchman801]

Dutch: als de kat weg is, dansen de muizen
English: when the cat's away, the mice will play

We have the very same phrase in French, German and Italian. And probably plenty of other languages, haha.

[incognito]

Quand le chat est parti les souris dansent

Rhefa lasa ny saka mandihy ny volavo...

[Lum]

Dutch: als de kat weg is, dansen de muizen
English: when the cat's away, the mice will play

We have the very same phrase in French, German and Italian. And probably plenty of other languages, haha.

Really? That surprises me. It's possibly either a borrowing or it was already present in the ancestor of European languages, Indo-European. But this saying being 3000 or 5000 years old.

[Hunchman801]

What I'm curious about is where the phrase originates from!

[RadiantHearts]

Hello everyone! I just joined here today!

I've been a Rayman fan forever, so it's hard to believe it took me this long to find such a wonderful website, but I love it here so far.

[rolesfamily]

Hello everyone! I just joined here today!

I've been a Rayman fan forever, so it's hard to believe it took me this long to find such a wonderful website, but I love it here so far.

Hello 'nd welcome to the forum!

[Zikken]

Hello and welcome to the forums RadiantHearts!

[RadiantHearts]

Thank you both very much! I love it here!