Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

Edit:

We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives…

  1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#:~:text=1.,English (1%2C452 million speakers)&text=According to Ethnologue%2C English is,native and non-native speakers.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    Interlingua: Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,

    Esperanto: Nian panon ĉiutagan donu al ni hodiaŭ

    English: Give us this day our daily bread;

    We have our choice between Spanish Latin, Romanian Latin, or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      11·
      6 months ago

      or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

      English borrowed a shit tonne from Latin & Romance languages, but it is at its core a Germanic language.

      To make a joke that still sticks with the facts, maybe something like “wannabe Latin”, or “that shitty Romeaboo language”.