Is one-world-language a good idea?

[Losty]

English is already a global language. In my opinion, the two biggest problems with English are: 1) that the Latin spelling system is fucking retarded. The Korean system, with the addition of a few characters for non-Korean sounds, would be better. 2) the Americans have raped English, making simple things like the difference between subject, object, and possessives confused. We need to go back a couple hundred years when grammar had some meaning.

Example: "I'm bigger than her." Fuck off with that shit. It's "I'm bigger than she (is)."

Funny, when I moved to South Georgia people always laughed at me for having 'is' or 'at' at the end of my sentences. I never knew it was weird. Now, after sevenish years in South Georgia and 6 years speaking only Spanish, and 6 years being a mother of small children....my English is warped. I still accidentally add Spanish sometimes when speaking English. Sigh oh well, I will learn German and then with my Ohio, Georgia, Mexican, German accent no one will ever know where I'm from or even what I'm saying half the time. I can live with that.

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If there was one global language it'd have to be English. Most Americans barely grasp it, expecting them to learn another language is asking far too much.

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I thought learning Spanish was really easy. The sounds are a lot easier than English.

For people who speak other Latin-derived languages it's not since a lot of words are really similar and we confuse ourselves. When I try to speak Spanish I change my accent and a sentence half spanish half portuguese comes out. Spaniards understand me.

If you can speak Portuguese most Spanish speakers will understand you anyways and you'll be able to get the idea of what they're saying too. I don't speak Portuguese but if I know the subject of the discussion I can get a basic idea of what's being said just because it's so similar to Spanish.