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• Legends of an ancestral common language that broke into a variety of tongues occur all over the world. The “confusion of tongues” described in the biblical legend of the Tower of Babel in Genesis and other ancient records was recognized by the Spanish conquerors of Yucatán when they found the legend among the Maya referring to a land to the east where all men once spoke a common language, since lost.
• Among all the possible candidates, standard English would seem to be, under present conditions, a good choice for a common world language. It is spoken as a national language by a greater number of nations than any other and over more of the world’s surface than nay other.
• There has never been a language so influenced by a combination of so many other languages; English is not only a world language but an assimilated mixture of most of the world’s  languages.
• Expressive words in any language can easily be incorporated into English, facilitated by the fact that English nouns are not divided into genders, adjectives do not form plurals or have cases, and verb tenses are simple and easy to understand.
• English and Chinese are, grammatically at least, among the world’s simplest languages, as languages tend to simplify with time and extensive use. In other words, the more people that speak a language, the simpler it becomes.
• The present use of English as an auxiliary world language for long-distance communication, in travel, and in business is still no proof that it will be the world one language of the future. What will probably happen is that certain words will become understood everywhere on the globe. Three of these words – “hello,” “Ok,” and “stop” –may already be the unrecognized precursors of a future world language.