There have been some attempts to create a new language for this purpose, which all failed. We should be realistic. English is the most common language for cross-country communications.
English is an international language. It does not belong to any specific country. As people in each nation have right to communicate in their own languages and dialects, it makes perfect sense to have different kinds of English such as British, American, Canadian, etc.
Besides, similar to any other language English also has a lot of complexity in terms of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation exceptions. English speaking nations should have rights to keep all these complexities as part of their heritage.
However, people around the world should not have to pay for complexities of English. Not to mention the confusion caused by multiple English versions.
We should identify:
1) the slight changes in English language which can decrease the learning curve to communicate in English properly.
2) the slight changes in English language which can decrease the ambiguity and confusion in the communications.
As a real case study, Chinese have been saving a lot of time and energy since they chose to use simplified Chinese characters.
I would like to invite everyone to assit me to list the possible changes to English in order to make it a globally superb standard language.
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