I don’t get the point of a universal language with things like Google translate. It’s far more likely that we’ll eventually develop a computer translator that’s sophisticated enough to have near perfect translation between major languages and many minor ones as well.

Just a random thing, a woman came into work recently who only spoke Portuguese, but she used Google translate and just spoke into it and we could communicate though it really well. We get a lot of people with no English whatsoever in work, so a tool like that is really useful