If we had to send someone to a planet with life to represent us, would this person most likely speak English?
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Well, so far the universal language is English, and that person might speak English as a second language, yes.\n\nHowever, with the passage of a few years, we are sure to be taken over by the Chinese nation, as they happen to be the most advanced and progressive.\nSo, I would say that the answer can be replied to in different ways according to the date...
513472
if they are living on a planet like earth, ver close, if they are living on a very different planet, not very close
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Sure. First we would have to have a visit from extraterrestrials. And I'm only part joking here.\n\nThere would need to be some solidifying experience that becomes a COMMON epiphany for every human on Earth.\n\nMaybe it would be Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Mohamed, Zoroaster and every other religious leader showing up together in a mother ship and holding a REAL United Nations summit. They could explain that every religion is actually acknowledging the VERY SAME CREATOR OF ALL THINGS and that the only reason they each showed up where and when and how they did was because there was no Internet, Satelite TV or other global communications system when they were here and besides, humans are still too egotistical to embrace a deity that doesn't have the same color skin as they do or speak the same language they do, so the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS sent customized mascots that each culture could embrace as "their own."\n\nThen the could all stand up and merge their images into one big ball of light and speak in tongues so everyone could understand this new Combined entity and we might have a chance at a one world "religion". Though I dislike that term. Religion is a man made club and clubs by their very nature exclude people. \n\nThis would have to be an UNDERSTANDING that we are ALL one.
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I don't think that should be a factor.  Our representatives should be experts in relevant fields.  Religion is not one of those fields.  There probably should, however, be someone knowledgeable about human culture who could explain to the aliens the place religion has on earth.
1065422
If I were you, I would learn good English!
13910
When you speak correct English then .... maybe.
129123
speaking english might help the relationship
1100963
Under certain circumstances, yes.  \n\nWith a few basic words of any foreign language one can communicate within the parameters which are covered by those words.\n\nShould I be in a Spanish speaking area, I can use my basic Spanish (maybe not even 200 words!) to find a restaurant, order  a meal, ask for and pay the bill, locate the Ladies' room, hail a taxi, go back to my hotel, pick up messages at the front desk, get some coffee and desert in the hotel coffee shop and to know which side to put facing outward on the door hanger so I am not disturbed in the morning.......\n\nIn the context of those defined and very limited circumstances my Spanish would probably serve me just fine.\n\nHowever I probably would NOT pick up on it if the taxi driver tried to hit on me, unless he used recognizable gestures....nor could I discuss the intricacies of Physics with the students in the coffee shop --- though I probably could figure out that they WERE students and studying Physics!\n\nLimited parameters aside, think I read somewhere that in order to have full communication in a language you would need to understand and speak somewhere around 2000 words in that language.  Good luck!\n\nI hope this answer helps!\n\nAlley
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Afraid not.  The only planet in our solar system that has the temperature and atmosphere that will sustain life is good old Earth.
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It is possible. He talks certainly for some other world as He means His Father's world -i guess- which could be His base somewhere in Space. He is in same time God and Human and finaly he dies for the salvation of the Human been which is a creation of his Father which is the absolute God. Yes, this could be read like the Father is the Alien who creates the human -for a reason that only this Alien-Father knows- and as he sees His creation becomming a piece of shit He send His Son -from his planet- to save the perverted creation giving an horrible end in His life on earth. Then -after death- He goes back to his planet lettting people think about His sacrifice... It could be like this, i dont know, i wasnt there... i think only God and Jesus knows the truth....
1060592
Any language spoken by Man.
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As part of the naturalization process, all applicants must demonstrate an understanding of spoken and written English pursuant 8 C.F.R. 312.1. The only exception is for those who are incapable of learning the language due to mental or physical impairment (i.e. blind, deaf, mentally retarded, etc.)
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Under current US law, there is no strict limitation on your English skills.I know many US citizen who barely mutter a few words in English.\nIn my country, you go thru a hard fluency exam and you must have lived there for at least 3 years. They don't just hand out citizenship to anyone, but I come from Europe and we do have an identity to keep and be proud of. We are NOT a rootless immigrant society like US...They have nothing to lose by letting foreigners in. We do.
473570
Yes, they should.  What gives an individual the incentive to learn English when the government provides everything you need in your language?
106563
One would hope that while living that person exercises this faculty of a brain and contribute to the betterment of mankind in some form or fashion, thereby leaving a legacy of sorts on the world. Be it love to your fellow man, peace to a neighbor or something as spectacular as an invention. There are those that came before us and have gone but left many good things for mankind. In essence the greatest form of living is giving. The brain is certainly capable of making the time alotted on earth 'purposeful' indeed.
826070
Speaking English would be a great start.
846856
I would hire an English tutor for you.