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

[Ahuvah]

Unless Jehovah rewires our brain. We only going on what we know now.

 

 

 

 

[Tsheppar]

In my imagination,I think whatever Jehovah created Adam to speak was perfect to describe  and convey emotions in every way humanly  possible and that is what we instantly will go back to - WITH ...the ability  to still read and comprehend our language from this world. I doubt it would  be the Hebrew of modern day. Jehovah shifted language in an instant , why wouldn't He shift it back to His original purpose and style ?

 I vote Hebrew but heavily modified.Lol

Edited January 30, 2023 by Tsheppar

[Dages]

It could be fun to open another topic about language and words that do not have a proper translation in English.

Edited January 30, 2023 by Dages

[New World Explorer]

6 hours 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:

I have a feeling that Jehovah will use that option. 

He originated mankind with that language, and Satan stood in a way of it. 

Satan cannot mess up Jehovah's original purpose, therefore I think we will go back to the language spoken by Adam and Eve.

 

And if I am wrong, please do not remind me in a New World about my wrong assumptions LOL 🤣 

[hatcheckgirl]

Jehovah made our brain for language. And there are two different parts of the brain particularly that work together in order for language to function (plus other parts that interact). It’s a very complex and high order stuff. 
 

So why be limited to just what Adam and Eve spoke? Why not learn every language? I am trilingual from birth, and in my family we interchangeably use all three within a conversation. It’s ideal because we can chose the more suitable word for the meaning we wish to convey. 
 

I would like to retain all our languages even if there is a universal language. The scattering of people at Babel by language was a means of stopping badness, but languages were meant to evolve as humans spread on the earth. Otherwise, our brains wouldn’t have been wired to create and understand different languages and tongues. It’s a gift. 
 

[Qapla]

7 hours ago, Hotteok said:

if we speak that language as a second language, it’d mean we won’t feel or think in that language

 

I knew a sister whose mother was from Mexico and her dad was from California. Her mother spoke Spanish and her dad English. From birth, or before, she was raised with both languages. She had never given it a thought until we talked about it but, she found that she thought and dreamed in both languages. Sometimes in ENglish and other times in Spanish. 

 

So, even her thoughts and feelings were bi-lingual.

 

She is not the only one I have known who said the same thing.

 

 

[Hotteok]

1 hour ago, Qapla said:

 

I knew a sister whose mother was from Mexico and her dad was from California. Her mother spoke Spanish and her dad English. From birth, or before, she was raised with both languages. She had never given it a thought until we talked about it but, she found that she thought and dreamed in both languages. Sometimes in ENglish and other times in Spanish. 

 

So, even her thoughts and feelings were bi-lingual.

 

She is not the only one I have known who said the same thing.

 

 

 

Yes, that’s because she grew up speaking both languages. Most of the big crowd however are going to learn, study and practice the new language after having fully grown up without the ability to pick up a new language like how kids do. 
Of course, if Jehovah helps, even that won’t be a problem.

[New World Explorer]

1 hour ago, Hotteok said:

Most of the big crowd however are going to learn, study and practice the new language

We don’t know that. 
It seems more likely that resurrected ones will focus on learning about Jehovah, not the language. 
Clear communication is essential when learning about Jehovah, and grasping to what happened to them. 
Jehovah already demonstrated ability of changing languages in a INSTANT, so I will stick with that. 
But I respect all other opinions. 

[Dages]

Well, food names and other common cultural words, we will keep them, right ? Even if we have to write Pizza as פיצה or Sushi as סושי  

[Bamahrt]

I’m ok with what ever universal language we have but I would like to keep all the languages especially since I’m now the learning Russian 

[MCTDonna]

On 1/29/2023 at 7:16 AM, Stormswift said:

Sign language please it's more peaceful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also i really like the music video's with sign language it ads extra meaning to it

[Ahuvah]

Yay someone else with great taste.

 

 

[Pink Butterflies]

I don’t care what language we speak. I do know whatever universal language Jehovah decides it will be pure and perfect language. Having a language that doesn’t include profanity and racial epithets would be fabulous.

[Wanda Hill]

I would love to use our own language, but be able to understand every other ones spoken..I really hate the thought of losing the sound of other languages. I so appreciate listening to other tongues, especially Japanese, and Gaelic (any of them)..

[Pabo]

I just hope we all speak Stray'n.

 

I have a bad enough issue speaking and understanding English.

[New World Explorer]

8 hours ago, Wanda Hill said:

Gaelic

I only "survived 34 seconds of this video" LOL 

 

[Qapla]

More than the Gaelic, I like the non-sequitur content of the statements in the video.

[Miss Bea]

Irrelevant. Just want to be there!

[Ahuvah]

You already a fine wine Miss Bea.

Edited January 31, 2023 by Dages

[Pink Butterflies]

11 hours ago, Pabo said:

I just hope we all speak Stray'n.

 

I have a bad enough issue speaking and understanding English.

Jehovah will make you fluent in whatever language is needed.

[Geralyn]

45 minutes ago, Pink Butterflies said:

Jehovah will make you fluent in whatever language is needed.

Yes!  I really would like the Pentecost experience!   Tongue of fire and all!   Even more (because it is not too much to ask) Jehovah heal my heart so the words that I speak are not offense or divisive.     So, keep the mother tongue so I can chat with my relatives as they come back, but how cool would it be to look a newly resurrected one in the eyes and greet him in his mother togue~!?