A not-so-serious poll: Do you wish to keep speaking English in the new world or something else?

[Hotteok]

A not-so-serious poll: Do you wish to keep speaking English as the international language in the new world or would you rather be able to speak a new one?

 

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by Brother_Bliss
No need for the title to be that long

[New World Explorer]

Revelation 21 promises no more tears...so definitely there will be no English language LOL 

 

We need something better in a New World. 

[Ahuvah]

Sign language please it's more peaceful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hotteok]

19 minutes ago, New World Explorer said:

Revelation 21 promises no more tears...so definitely there will be no English language LOL 

 

We need something better in a New World. 

 

Yes English doesn’t even have a plural for you.. Y’all agree, right? 

(that was a joke, I love English! )

15 minutes ago, Stormswift said:

Sign language please it's more peaceful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh no really?  

[Dages]

We keep our knowledge about language but we get a new one to unify communication (Hebrew is fine too)

[Ahuvah]

👍🤏✌️🫶🤜🤙✊️

[Qapla]

5 hours ago, Dages said:

We keep our knowledge about language but we get a new one to unify communication (Hebrew is fine too)

 

Yes, there are options not in the poll. Keeping the current languages intact so we can recall them would be nice. However, a "brand new" language, one never spoken before, would be really nice. One that we all will know instantly, not have to learn it and all people will have it as a second mother tongue in addition to one that we already know, be that English, Spanish, French ... you get the idea.

 

 

[Dages]

4 minutes ago, Qapla said:

 

Yes, there are options not in the poll. Keeping the current languages intact so we can recall them would be nice. However, a "brand new" language, one never spoken before, would be really nice. One that we all will know instantly, not have to learn it and all people will have it as a second mother tongue in addition to one that we already know, be that English, Spanish, French ... you get the idea.

 

 

Klingon isn't a brand new language, right?

[jps]

if we have to learn, it wont be finnish because it takes more than 1000 years to master..

[Shawnster]

Since this is a not-so-serious poll, it fits better with the other not-so-serious topics. 

[cricket246]

I wish we could all understand each other but keep the accents lol.

[New World Explorer]

5 hours ago, jps said:

if we have to learn, it wont be finnish because it takes more than 1000 years to master..

Many Finnish words have no English equivalent

‘Sauna’ is one of few Finnish words that have entered the English language. But while relatively few Finnish words have entered the English language, there are many words with no direct translation into English. Löyly is the steam generated by throwing water on hot stones in the sauna. A mökki is a Finnish summer cabin, usually in a forest or by a lake. Sisu is a Finnish mind-set suggesting determination, tenacity and grit. Salmiakki is a salty liquorice sweet: you either love it or you hate it.

Juosta means to run and juoksennella means to run around aimlessly. Other verbs can convey a similar idea of lack of purpose, for example laula (to sing) becomes lauleskella, the action of singing to oneself (possibly in the shower).

As you might expect, Finland also has words that denote cold weather: paukkupakkanen is literally ‘bang frost’ from the splitting noise heard in log cabins in extremely cold temperatures. And tulipalopakkanen is literally ’blaze frost’, possibly referring to the demise of many log cabins which burn down in wintertime.

One more, which might have a tenuous link to cold weather, is kalsarikännit, which is the practice of excessive stay-at-home drinking of alcohol in one’s underwear (probably from a French/Swedish loanword: caleçon/kalsong).https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/notoriously-challenging-learning-finnish-foreign-language

[Tronora]

I wish to continue to speak Norwegian, and to have another common language 'implanted' instantly. I hope to keep the English and whatever other foreign languages I already know intact (or get to speak them perfectly)

 

 

[Ahuvah]

Wish we could all understand one another too ... cough cough ... GREG .... cough .

 

 

 

 

 

[jps]

16 minutes ago, Tronora said:

I wish to continue to speak Norwegian, and to have another common language 'implanted' instantly. I hope to keep the English and whatever other foreign languages I already know intact (or get to speak them perfectly)

 

 

norska låter så mysigt😀

[Tronora]

Just now, jps said:

norska låter så mysigt😀

 

Svenska har nogra riktigt mysiga ord: fika og käka. Och kram. När jag textar med min svenska vän (har dere ikke et eget ord for venninde?? ) , händer det att jag forsöker lite svenska.

 

Translated:

Swedish has some really cosy words: fika og käka. Och kram. When I text with my Swedish friend (don't you have a word for 'female friend'?? ) , I sometimes to try to write some Swedish. 

 

[jps]

2 minutes ago, Tronora said:

 

Svenska har nogra riktigt mysiga ord: fika og käka. Och kram. När jag textar med min svenska vän (har dere ikke et eget ord for venninde?? ) , händer det att jag forsöker lite svenska.

 

Translated:

Swedish has some really cosy words: fika og käka. Och kram. When I text with my Swedish friend (don't you have a word for 'female friend'?? ) , I sometimes to try to write some Swedish. 

 

jo,

väninna👍😀

[Ahuvah]

Or get this: baia danke ... in South Afrikaan is thanks very much. Pronounced: buy a donkey. 

[Tronora]

7 minutes ago, jps said:

jo,

väninna👍😀

 

Ah, tack!

 

[Parale]

20 hours ago, Hotteok said:

A not-so-serious poll: Do you wish to keep speaking English as the international language in the new world or would you rather be able to speak a new one?

 

Interestingly no option for Spanish? My 'back-of-an-envelope' maths for Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide indicate

• Native English Speakers: 2.5 million = 29%
• Native Spanish Speakers = 2.0 million = 24%

Another statistic was provided a few years back in our magazines:

 

The Watchtower: People “out of All the Languages” Hear the Good News

"Worldwide, about 80 percent of Jehovah’s Witnesses speak a language other than English."

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2005885#h=13

[Parale]

I've always presumed we would speak a form of Hebrew in the new world. Basically what we believe Adam and Eve spoke:

 

Watchtower 15 December 2015 - Jehovah, the God of Communication

Jehovah communicated with Adam in the garden of Eden, using human language. God likely did so in an ancient form of Hebrew.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2015921#h=12

 

And remember, not everyone was at the Tower of Babel. Thus Shem's family wasn't, and they appear to have kept the 'original' language?

 

Insight Vol 2 - Language

Shem’s descendants, who apparently did not figure among the crowd at Babel, came to speak not only Hebrew but also Aramaean, Akkadian, and Arabic.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200002680#h=15

 

I would have thought we would 'speak the language miraculously' - just like they did in Babel, and at Pentecost 33 CE, but in reverse. It wasn't just the words, it was complex grammar they where able to miraculously learn too:

 

The Watchtower 1 September 2013 - Did Our Languages Come From the “Tower of Babel”?

The confusion of languages at Babel hindered mankind’s ability to combine their intellectual and physical powers. Yet, their new languages, like the first language, were complex... According to the Bible, the original human tongue and the tongues introduced at Babel were, not primitive grunts and growls, but complex languages.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013646#h=16

 

Insight Vol 2 - Language

On the day of Pentecost, 33 C.E., the holy spirit was poured out on the Christian disciples in Jerusalem, and they suddenly began speaking in many languages that they had never studied and learned. Jehovah God had demonstrated at Babel his miraculous ability to place different vocabularies and different grammars in the minds of people. At Pentecost he did so again but with a major difference, for the Christians suddenly gifted with the power to speak new languages did not forget their original tongue,

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200002680#h=25

Edited January 30, 2023 by Parale

[Hotteok]

11 minutes ago, Parale said:

I've always presumed we would speak a form of Hebrew in the new world. Basically what we believe Adam and Eve spoke:

 

Watchtower 15 December 2015 - Jehovah, the God of Communication

Jehovah communicated with Adam in the garden of Eden, using human language. God likely did so in an ancient form of Hebrew.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2015921#h=12

 

And remember, not everyone was at the Tower of Babel. Thus Shem's family wasn't, and they appear to have kept the 'original' language?

 

Insight Vol 2 - Language

Shem’s descendants, who apparently did not figure among the crowd at Babel, came to speak not only Hebrew but also Aramaean, Akkadian, and Arabic.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200002680#h=15

 

I would have thought we would 'speak the language miraculously' - just like they did in Babel, and at Pentecost 33 CE, but in reverse. It wasn't just the words, it was complex grammar they where able to miraculously learn too:

 

The Watchtower 1 September 2013 - Did Our Languages Come From the “Tower of Babel”?

The confusion of languages at Babel hindered mankind’s ability to combine their intellectual and physical powers. Yet, their new languages, like the first language, were complex... According to the Bible, the original human tongue and the tongues introduced at Babel were, not primitive grunts and growls, but complex languages.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013646#h=16

 

Insight Vol 2 - Language

On the day of Pentecost, 33 C.E., the holy spirit was poured out on the Christian disciples in Jerusalem, and they suddenly began speaking in many languages that they had never studied and learned. Jehovah God had demonstrated at Babel his miraculous ability to place different vocabularies and different grammars in the minds of people. At Pentecost he did so again but with a major difference, for the Christians suddenly gifted with the power to speak new languages did not forget their original tongue,

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200002680#h=25

Hebrew sounds really cool.

sounds sacred, attractively ancient, moderate, intelligent etc

[Qapla]

Since all things will be made new - we may not regress to an old language, even if Adam spoke it ... we may move forward to a new language never before spoken - kind of like those who will be singing a new song

 

 

[Ahuvah]

That is actually my opinion too. I guess we shall see. G'day John.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Hotteok]

I think for us to speak a new language, we would have to be able to speak miraculously as our first language.

I don’t know how it’ll work but that’s why it needs to Jehovah’s miracle.

If not, if we speak that language as a second language, it’d mean we won’t feel or think in that language (just like I can make myself think in English but I can’t do it naturally because it’s not my first one.) and always our first one (in my case Korean) will be stronger in my brain, which I think will hinder the true uniting and bonding process of the new world.