Honestly I think so menu little would be on board with something like this since so many people speak multiple languages. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine a world where even 50% of Americans would even try to learn a second language. I think many would outright refuse as a matter of anti intellectual and xenophobic ideology.

It’s not really that diverse though. Overwhelmingly, the language of diplomacy and business currently is English.

William Shatner made that movie though

Honestly I was trying to learn Esperanto for a while, it’s very easy since it was constructed to not contain irregular conjugations or pronunciations. But getting everyone to learn Esperanto would never happen.

If the global language ever changes from English, I assume it will be to Chinese.

Dialect was probably the wrong word, because of course there’s many different dialects in many countries. (In fact, your aside about “sounds very US American” is funny, since I guarantee the US has more dialects than Spain. Plenty to hate on the US for, but that ain’t it.)

Anyway idk if there’s a word for this but like, the intermediary level between a language and a dialect. There is a wide gulf between Spanish spoken in Spain vs Latin America the same way as English in the UK vs USA. That macro-level distinction breaks down into trees of further distinction in regions, cities, towns of course.

Yes! It’s easy to untie unlike a double knot. Unties fast but only if you do it intentionally.

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The tipoffs to being Spain Spanish if they teach extra conjugations for vosotros and if they speak evening with a lisp because at some point it was decided to emulate a king with a speech impediment.

I think it’s silly to say that Spain Spanish is canonical, though. Like, says who? Spanish people? Spanish in Spain is a dialect just like any other Spanish-speaking country. Imo it makes sense to teach the dialect that learners are most likely to encounter based on their geographic location, with context about the other dialects.

Tell Dirty I would die for them

Hogging the braincell

I love that scrunkly baby on the right

Why did I know which one was Loki instinctively lol

Ears so big she can hear the written word lol

OP, you and your husband should download the Stellarium app. You can compare stars together when you talk. 🙂