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[Milos Rancic]

Zen is very good way to contemplate limitations of human nature.

One of the limitations is very limited ability to learn languages.
There are more than 5000 languages in the world and just extraordinary
individuals are able to speak more than 10. And when I say "speak", my
ru-2 is not counted.

Because of that genetically inherited disability, humans tend to learn
one language common for the cultural context in which they live, which
is called "lingua franca". With some pauses, from ~100BC to 1900 it
was Latin in Western Europe. In Eastern and Central Africa it is
Swahili. And today it is English in the world. Or at least on
Internet.

So, there are a couple of options: (1) Change gravitational constant
locally with the aim to catapult all English language out of Earth.
(2) Learn all languages of the world. (3) Invent new lingua franca and
teach everybody to use it.

Or just try Zen. It is not American, you are safe.