English as an international language

I trust you(;

But I just wanna say that Chinese isnt such a hard language as everybody is thinking (expect of the signs), but of course English is easier.

yeah of course it isn't the "ULTRA IMBA MEGA BAD AND HARD TO LEARN LANGUAGE". But the topic is about international languages and I think Chinese would be a very bad determination because it's homeland is South West Asia and not the world. AND moreover it's not as easy as English.

btw if somebody wants a regular language they should think about Finnish. It's extremely regular

Viking, the language of future ! Yeah

We're going to repare the Babel's mistake ! Hurra !
What ? I look like a fanatic ?

More seriously, don't you think an international language should be phonetic ? I mean, one letter <=> one sound, no éèàùâäüñ, neither useless dubble-letters... isn't it ?

I don't care which is the international language (if it wont change) so I don't care about phonetic, too.

Dunedune wrote:More seriously, don't you think an international language should be phonetic ? I mean, one letter <=> one sound, no éèàùâäüñ, neither useless dubble-letters... isn't it ?

double letters aren't useless. And that éèàùâäüñ would have his own signs isn't a very good idea I think. é and è are both a different type of e. ñ is a different type of n. If every spoken vocal would have his own letter there would be much more than there are now.

I don't think so, look to phonetic 'language' you can read in dictionaries.
There are few new letters and I think some of the latin ones disappeared... Just look : in french s is pronounced 'z' before some letters (o...) and 'c' before others (a...) : this is unefficient, you must know the context to pronounce the letter.
And I see no reason to waste letters saying "letters" while you just can say "leters" !

yeah but letters = letters
leters = liters (not the English "i" but the French/German)

Tihs sucks... you have two differents letters for the same sound.

Dunedune wrote:Tihs sucks... you have two differents letters for the same sound.

No Oo actually u have 1 letter for 2 sounds.

e(t) and i => same sound

ahem ... no ...
i = aï
e = i

middle = leter

nope!

You're right - like always