&gt;<i>Instead of having a bunch of barely connected Internets walled off by language, why not standardize language and have one global venue of communication, where everyone can work together?</i><p>Because I don&#x27;t want a huge monoculture, and the end goal is not to have &quot;everyone work together in one way&quot; (which sounds like something from the Third Reich), but to let a thousand flowers bloom.<p>Ease of doing business is not the be all end all criterion...