language

A common language.
There is no doubt that a common language used throughout the world would do much to brings countries closer to each other. Thought it is becoming increasingly easy to move from place to place, our inability to communicate with one another, gives rise to numerous misunderstandings and makes real contact between people of different nationalities impossible. Many attempts have been made to overcome this problem and they have all failed. The fear of foreign influence and domination rules out the universal acceptance of any one of existing major languages. Aware of this difficulty, many linguists have constructed artificial languages which could have no possible political overtones. They have argued that a language of this sort would perform much the same service as Latin did in the middle Ages.
Athough linguists succeeded in making their artificial language extremely simple so that they would be easy to learn, their efforts seemed doomed from the start. The reason for this is that there is no real incentive to learn an artificial language. There is nothing to guarantee that everybody is willing to make the effort; there is no assurance that the learner will have any adequate return for this toil. When people today undertake to learn a foreign language, they are not only interested in speaking it. Mastery of a language makes available to the learner a great deal of worthwhile literature and many current publications. This is the biggest stumbling block of all for the artificially constructed tongue. Having no literature of its own, all it can offer is a limited number of translations which as valueless in themselves. Nor can it acquire any literature; for it could have to be used for a great many generations before this could become possible. Moreover, constant use over a long period would bring into being many “ national” dialects and the language would thus defeat its own purpose. Another serious objection is the fact that a language is shaped by used and not by design. It is a living thing which is forever growing and changing. It takes hundreds of years before it can acquire richness and depth. In an artificial language, however, the meanings of words are rigidly defined. Inflexibility makes for an absence of subtlety, so that no really fine meaning can be conveyed. Though this quality may be admirable for scientific publications, it greatly impedes the formation of any significant literature. Latin is ideal in this respect, for it was a “dead” language with a literature; an artificial one is “dead” from the start. This makes it likely that existing language barriers will remain with us for a very long time Sumary:
Today I have read a passage which mention to some problems of a common language. A common language would make people in the world close to each other and avoid some misunderstandings. Except for their native language, human being din’t accept any other language. Many linguists have tried to make out a artificial language which could have no possible political overtones , easy to learn and hoped that it could be a common language. But they have fail because people didn’t want to learn to a common language that disadvantages of worthwhile literature and culture. We have to spend hundreds of years to make a artificial language to be richness and depth .And in an artificial language may have not inflexibility that make it was a “dead” language.
Comment:
I don’t agree with the author of this passage. I think he/ she seemed to take common language become more complex. English is taken as a common language now, everybody knows the importance in studying English, it allows we to talk and to understand one another. We are trying to studying English because it is the most widely spoken language in the world. I completely agree with her/his opinion that: “ an artificial one is dead from the start” because it wasn’t a language with a literature butI think that the existence of language barriers have not remained with us now.
Quynh’s comment: Firstly I found that some place use in correct grammar in your reflection , you should be aware of this. I totally agree with the comments that you made and I want to add one thing that we all know that the purpose of learning a common language help people communicate with each other and avoid misunderstandings fromm the language barrier but even if you can speak that language without understanding the culture behind the language, you cannot use the language correctly.