Centric

Given that one of the projects I've been working on for the past few weeks here at work involves 17 foreign languages, I have a proclamation to make.

Not only should English be the official language of the U.S., it should also be the official language of Earth. If we're going to shoulder the responsibility of being the world's only super power, I think we ought to enjoy a couple of fringe benefits as well. At the top of the list should be the rest of the world adopting the English language. At the very least, I would settle for all languages agreeing to use only the Latin alphabet. No more squiggly lines like in Thai, Japanese, and so on. If you catch me in the right mood, I might make concessions for those funny accented characters in Portuguese or French, but don't count on it.

Don't even get me started on the differences between Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified). I get it that you have a bazillion people, but do you really need two alphabets?