Elaboration 45

While all over the world, it is clearly observable that there 'is' a world-language in praxis, surprisingly, one often hears resistance against this clear fact of English as world-language and scientific language (and air-traffic, transport, etc.). True, it is not an ideal language, but so are probably all languages. English is very inconsistent (i.e. damaging for our children's minds) in its writing, its plural forms, etc. But so is the runner up, the number two, the Spanish language with its absurdity of female lamps, and male sun, etc. (Turkish is very, very consistent, but, apart from additioned German and Dutch, I can not tell about the other languages). An artificial language then? This would be all-right, when all existing languages covered only very small percentages of the whole. As it is, there is no need for that. There is a lot of saving of time and effort for a large part of Earth's population that would be done away with when ALL citizens had to learn an artificial language (72.1). Besides, we can always and easily change an existing language into a rational one. While Russian and even Turkish have numerical superiority over French (a language often 'wanted' to be world-language), we must look at numbers AND global spread. Native English, roughly 450 million, Spanish 200 million, the rest (with Chinese problematic) is far less. The natural resistors against English should take a large globe or world-map (not the Mercator type) and some luminous paint. Paint all native English speaking areas (Australia, Canada etc.) over, and shade all areas where English is secondary, the former colonies. Then, put dots in all places were there are universities in which most scientists can readily use English, turn off the light and see how much luminosity remains on the globe AS A WHOLE. If need be, the same can be done with other languages and it will show the sheer stupidity of resistance against English. How do we improve the consistency of our English World Language? By simply 'doing' it. By refusing to comply with crazy customs. We can learn from the kids too. When they say: foots and tooths, comed, etc. instead of the usual, it is high time that we used these forms too, instead of correcting the, far more logical, poor dears. When we write and speak consistently in a consistent way, it is soon generally accepted.