It&#x27;s funny that most of the arguments people make for retaining old languages and writing systems are &quot;so we can read old literature or perpetuate old cultures&quot;. Surely if everyone used the same language, that would have the opposite effect and open up far more writing to more people - Chinese people could read Shakespeare. Translators would only have to convert from each old language to the lingua franca, so Hebrew speakers could read Confucius too. That&#x27;s an O(n) task instead of the O(n^2) that we currently have.