system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If languages continue to borrow words from one another- is it foreseeable that humanity will every agree to or create a single language?

I know politically a universal language isn't really achievable. However if languages like English and Spanish and Japanese keep taking loan words from one another and general linguistic knowledge of the world's populations continues to diversify, what is the possibility of all languages becoming so similar, or words becoming so interchangeable, that a universal (at least on a 1st world scale) parlance can be created?
gpt
Convergence is a real phenomenon but it is far outpaced by the rate of language replacement. Not to mention that not all languages are converging - and sometimes we see loanwords replaced with words formed from native roots, i.e. divergence. In other words, it's more likely that the most populous languages will begin to displace medium- and small-sized languages rather than a mutual convergence.