NationStates Jolt Archive


UN Delegates, Support the Lingua Franca 2003 Proposal!

Boa Vista
07-12-2003, 00:16
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF BOA VISTA MINISTER OF UNITED NATIONS AFFAIRS

Due to the fact that the people of the world speaks different languages, and due to the fact that these languages are often not mutually understandable, it is, therefore, necessary to set up a universal language that serves as a lingua franca (a linking languages for all people, not official language) that will eliminate probllems from misunderstnadings of an international business deal to a potentially fatal misunderstanding of medicine dosage.
(just imagine that you know only Spanish, and that you got a prescription that you have to take once a day, but you misunderstood it and you took the prescription 11 times a day because "once" also means eleven in Spanish)
For the sake of businessmen and ordinary citizen's lives, support the proposal. Your action can save lives!

Sincerely
Fatima Esparteiro
Minister of United Nations Affairs
The Commonwealth of Boa Vista