Comments on: Would One Language Stop War?

By: Shivraj Bidiyasar

Shivraj Bidiyasar — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:41:26 +0000

My name is Shivraj and i am from india. It is my frist comment on your blog . I have read all last blog.this is intersting topic and according to me if whole world speak same language then we will understand to others easily and there will be no misunderstandig and peoples can make better relationship with others So we says that the confilts might be a lot of decrease.other side a war depend on situation & mentelability of peoples. I think English is spoken at all around the word about above 80%.and such countries group is also . Which languages are same. But what is not be war? Many countries are in situation of homewar.so i think the role of language in the war is a little. If any mistakes in it. tell me my mistakes Really sorry …

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:00:05 +0000

It is very simple, nothing complicated. You just mentioned in your article that war is just different type of business. Needless to say, people in those business will get richer with each war occuring throughout the world. The weapon market is no longer domestic business. They sell armors to anybody no matter where they live. I dont think using one language help understand each other’s perspectives. The war will keep continuing either by force or by money until there is no more poor or rich in our world which is impossible.
Thanks for reading!!

By: Kalkin

Kalkin — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:59:49 +0000

Unfortunately, you can’t stop wars just by the unification of world languages. At best one language will help us to learn more about our neighbours and understand them better. Even making this small step towards common understanding will be difficult due to the strong cultural differences we have and different levels of our education. And wars usually start because of different reasons. Hunger for power and money, hunger for resources that can supply us with power and money, just to name a few. I doubt if we can solve all these problems in the future.

By: ARTUR

ARTUR — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 03:10:07 +0000

I know that it’s very important to the government to have their own national language. It’s just like patriotic feeling. But for me it’s just garbage. I’m living in Kazakhstan. Here 80% of people talking in Russian, and government, because of this, forced all pupil to study Kazakh language. And they, make all these paperwork in government structure in Kazakh language. It’s terrible, because most people don’t understand it at all. Anyway my thoughts is that it will be great to have one language on the planet. if that were the case i would go out from this terrible country. You know of course US is not very good country, but it’s way better that Kazakhstan. We live with one president since 1989. This one is democratic? I don’t think so, but our government thy to tell us that we are living into the democratic country

By: Pawel

Pawel — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:14:00 +0000

Communication creates almost 100% of total conflicts. It is obvious that one language could help resolve the problem slightly. But we have to bear in mind that language is just a tool. Nothing more. Just the tool.
If we forget about our needs and concentrate on others then all conflicts will disapear. It is just a question of time.

By: Mariko

Mariko — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:02:58 +0000

Your app is kind of difficult for me to use because you have to scroll a lot. Also, the scripts often don’t show up properly.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:43:49 +0000

Languages are the smallest of the reasons of war. Human’s greed, intolerance and jealousy are the main reasons. My opinion is confirmed by big quantity of civil wars all around the world.

By: john

john — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:28:58 +0000

Understanding other cultures better would definitely help to get rid of war. Mixed marriages are good for that reason.

I know because I have many Chinese friends and am married to an Asian lady.

They are all just people trying to survive from day to day just like everyone else.

The next time a government tries to go to war make the polititions do the fighting and lets see how long it lasts then!

By: Asad, Pakistan

Asad, Pakistan — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:18:16 +0000

English is spoken in almost every country these days but that does not prevent wars from happening. It is all about personal gains and super power status. As long as countries have personal agendas to fulfill there will always be wars. Let’s give a religious spin to it – there is a prediction that before the end of this world there will religious wars to be fought out and so on. It has been the case since the inception of this world and it will continue to do so in the same vein. We humans are programmed like that. So speaking one language will not bridge any gap or remove hatred between countries. Your idea is noble since you travel a lot and live in different cultures so your thinking horizon is pretty broad. However, not everyone thinks like that in the real world.

By: Muhsen Hadi

Muhsen Hadi — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:39:59 +0000

Hello all,
Exactly the main reason of existing and continuing war in the world is money and benefit if war destroys a country or society in other hand it makes some benefit for some people or other countries, that is why unfortunately the war would not be getting end in our world. Let me to have a real example here:
I am from Afghanistan and its about 30 years keeps continuing war in Afghanistan but exactly the source of creating and continuing of the war is not inside Afghanistan perhaps its coming from our neighbors countries due to many reason but don’t want to explain how and why due to here is not place for politics.
About language, exactly similarity of speaking around the world pave the way that people easy communicate and understand each other, share their believes, opinions…etc. Also it would decrease the level of war around the world but unfortunately may not remove completely the war due to other existing reasons for example, one another of the reason is the differences of religion that still people are killing each other around the world, like in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other counties and its continuing very badly right now.
Let me to tell you a short story about the benefit of the similarity of language.
Four guys( with different languages ) joint together in a long distance walking way at the half the way one of them asked lets buy something to eat they all agreed. One of them said I want grapes, the other said no, I want üzüm (grape in Turkish language), the other said not both of you I want Angor (grape in Persian language) and the forth guy said let’s have a виноград (Grape in Russian language). They could not make decision despite they wanted one thing that was Grape but asked it in four languages. They started disputing each other finally one guy came and asked what is going on with you all? One of them said we can’t make decision due to the differences of our choice. The guy asked individually each of them and they said what they want. The guys understood the reason of their conflict and told them, let’s contribute your money and give it to me, I will solve your problem. The guys brought grape, individually each of them said “Yes” I wanted it.
Result; there were not any differences between their wants only their languages made different their choice.