Originally posted by: RegressiveThug
Unless we all have power of PK, we do need a common tool to communicate.
There are tools. Some rudimentary and archaic. Some newer. Perhaps the oldest tool is the translator. And for the deaf, heard of hearing, and speech-disabled people translators are sometimes essential instead of an unnecessary inconvenience. A lot of forms, instruction manuals, resources are available in multiple languages so that the maximum possible people can use them.
In more technologically advanced Google and other companies are building translation apps. You can hover your camera lens over text and get it translated. There are earbuds that translate speech into your preferred language. There are apps you can speak into with your language and it translates it into other languages.
I find it exasperating that people are complaining about language despite so many tools available and we once had people like Marco Polo or Ibn Batuta who traveled the world without knowing what language was spoken in the beyond.