When will humans stick to speaking only one language?

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Kiam ni havas bonajn aŭtomatajn tradukilojn ni ne bezonos lerni malsamajn lingvojn.
 
Honestly, when Elon (or whoever) finally develops a space-based colony. Whoever colonizes space in a serious way will set the language standards for the human race for the next few thousand years. Same with measuring systems, and possibly other cultural benchmarks. When Mars and the Moon and a hundred orbital habitats all speak exclusively English, every immigrant from Earth will speak English fluently as well, just to get off-planet.

I'd guess we're about a century away from English becoming the only real language left.
 
Personally, while a lingua franca is useful, I don't want to see individual cultures just die out. If there is to be a sense of uniformity, it has to be in moderation.
 
That probably wont ever happen. There might be one day when the vast majority of the word's population speaks English as a second language but I doubt highly entrenched local languages and culture would ever disappear.
There is high value in speaking a language you and a budy would understand but a person who only speak english wouldn't be able to understand.
 
We already tried it and it didn't work out:
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Honestly, when Elon (or whoever) finally develops a space-based colony. Whoever colonizes space in a serious way will set the language standards for the human race for the next few thousand years. Same with measuring systems, and possibly other cultural benchmarks. When Mars and the Moon and a hundred orbital habitats all speak exclusively English, every immigrant from Earth will speak English fluently as well, just to get off-planet.

I'd guess we're about a century away from English becoming the only real language left.
Why are you presuming only one country will colonize space?
 
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