If you had to, what language would you choose to replace English as the lingua franca?

If you had to, what language would you choose to replace English as the lingua franca?

You can only choose another language that isn't your own.

french

esperanto. literally took me two (2) days to learn it.

Uzbek.

Italian

French because then lingua franca would actually make sense

German

toki pona

emojis

High-Icelandic.

Ancient Greek

>pick Danish
>get Norwegian as lingua franca anyway
Fuck your rules.

English English

Latin or its modern romance variations. Italian/Romanian are the closest. Beautiful phonetics, familiar latin alphabet, elegant grammar

Alternative choice: Middle-eastern languages: farsi, arabic etc. As repulsive as mudslimes are, its hard to deny that their writing is absolutely beautiful

Fuck this: Germanic aka my dog barks like that
Fuck this too: Asian languages. Fuck this overcomplicated, archaic bullshit with disgusting sounding words

L.M.A.O. it took a mexicano two (II) days to learn a mexicano dialect xD

Finnish

mi kin.

Swahili

Basque or Irish.
Because fuck you.

American

Helghan

Frisian

portuguese

German or Swedish, since I can speak a bit of both already. And they aren't impossible to learn.

Black Speech
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Mexican

Sometimes, I imagine how the world would be if Swedish was the language spoken in the United States.

Spanish

Catalan

Latina

estonian

Korean. It has the writing and display efficiency of logograms without the disgusting sounds of Chinese languages.

french

Croatian

Funnier at least. And also, we would be happy to learn Swedish instead of our pakkoruotsi-angst that we have now.

Esperanto is the correct answer.

Latin so then it will be a neutral language for everyone

Klingon

Finnish

Dutch would be cool too.

French

"no"

Finnish.

interslavic

French so I could >feel in a beautiful tongue

french

Mandarin

...

Miajn amikojn.

Esperanto

En la mondon venis nova sento,
Tra la mondo iras forta voko;
Per flugiloj de facila vento
Nun de loko flugu ĝi al loko.
Ne al glavo sangon soifanta
Ĝi la homan tiras familion:
Al la mond' eterne militanta
Ĝi promesas sanktan harmonion.
Sub la sankta signo de l' espero
Kolektiĝas pacaj batalantoj,
Kaj rapide kreskas la afero
Per laboro de la esperantoj.
Forte staras muroj de miljaroj
Inter la popoloj dividitaj;
Sed dissaltos la obstinaj baroj,
Per la sankta amo disbatitaj.
Sur neŭtrala lingva fundamento,
Komprenante unu la alian,
La popoloj faros en konsento
Unu grandan rondon familian.
Nia diligenta kolegaro
En laboro paca ne laciĝos,
Ĝis la bela sonĝo de l' homaro
Por eterna ben' efektiviĝos.

Pandunia

latin, duh.

"yes"

Aren't you supposed to be neutral ?

Latin, we're using it for science anyway.

Latin would work well as is already used in science.

Eesti :^)

American English.

1. Canadian English
2. British English
3. Australian English

DUTCH

>people actually want a language as disgusting as french to be the next lingua franca
Le go fuque yourselfexque

Norwegian, for sure. Not that different from Swedish

Well, one of the reasons we are using it (and greek) for science is because we aren't using it for everyday talk. Makes it easy when you need to come up with new names for things

French

either toki pona or esperanto