Mx Toffer D. Brutechild HSD-SC @toffer@jorts.horse

I hate that I have to point out to people why the concept of a "universal language" is racist, ableist, and perpetuates the cultural genocide of colonialism. All the people that push this idea all have the same fantasy in their head, too. "What if everyone spoke English like me, so I wouldn't have to learn a new language to talk to everyone?" Yes, let's just ignore that:

Firstly, various other modes of communication exist beyond verbal (some of which are necessary for people with disabilities)

Secondly, all the languages in existence currently have very different means of expression, and there isn't total overlap between all of them. Have you ever seen someone not fluent in your language grasping at what to say because a word they so commonly use has no equivalent in yours?

Thirdly, we have all these languages because people vary in their means of expression, and one language may evolve into many over time because of that. Trying to prescribe some singular means of communication would ultimately fail as time saw it fragment into new dialects, sublanguages, and eventually wholly different languages.

Finally, there's been enough death of culture and destruction of information just because of situations like this. Someone thought what they have is better than everyone else, and everybody ought to be doing it. Religion, food, storytelling, art, recreation, music, and so much more, as well as language; all of these things have been forcibly displaced by colonialism in thousands of places.