For years the Western world dreamed about a universal tongue. It's here now, and it's English. Every complaint in the article is correct, but ask yourself this: if you had to choose between English and nothing, which would you choose?
Rather no universal language and having to translate than forcing every child to learn this abomination of a language.
Maybe I’m biased as someone who had to learn english as second language, and had to memorize every word multiple times - just for the different ways of spellings, or composita (helpful vs. help and full, wtf?)...
People always complain about having to learn gender for the German words – but that’s 2 bits of data plus the pronunciation – which is the same as the spelling.
In English, you have the spelling, the spelling of various combinations, and different variations of pronunciations.
It’s hard to speak properly, impossible to learn, and its only benefit is that everyone speaks it.
