A common lingua franca would be of great benefit for communication between the citizens of the world. English has long since taken this place. There is no way around English today. Nevertheless, there are still enough reasons to critically scrutinise the dominance of English. Apart from the historical background, English is not a particularly euphonious language. But that is a matter of taste. Better-sounding languages such as French and Spanish are just as negatively charged and even more difficult to learn.
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Wouldn't it be better to choose a completely unencumbered, constructed planned language that is relatively easy to learn and also sounds good? A language that does not override or even supplant the existing native languages and does not claim to be a cultural language. A whole series of logically structured planned languages were invented in the 19th and 20th centuries. The best known and most widespread is Esperanto. I have written an article on this question at Substack.
I will stick to English for the time being. That's why I write my website, my blog, my articles and my correspondence for the United Mankind Initiative in English, even though I don't speak English at all. I use the online translator from DeepL, which is based on AI. The translations are close to perfection. It's not for nothing that DeepL now has the reputation of being the most accurate translator in the world. The free version is perfectly adequate for my purposes, as long as the communication is not reduced to memes but consists of comprehensible, coherent sentences.
A language of communication for United Mankind (substack.com)