One Common Language

Advantages

• The obvious advantage is that there would be an easier understanding from one person to the other; meaning that there would not be any form of miscommunication (perhaps preventing conflict). 
• Throughout history many people have been discriminated due to their culture (specifically their language) and therefore, if there was a common language, there would be no stereotypes. 
• Perhaps there would be less territorial conflict between countries, as if each person shares the same language, perhaps they would also share the same flag, meaning that "countries" would not even be the same word it means today. 
• Another advantage would be that the "uniqueness" formed of one's own personality would be lost, because sometimes a language defines the attitude of the person (i.e. British - formal). Therefore, this is grey area, because while it is lost, this would result in less conflict of different personalities. 
• Lots of literature would become universal (i.e. People would understand each other's religions more, such as the Quran)

Disadvantages

• With different languages, this renders our world with diversity. Due to this, with one common language, there would be no diversity nor individual pride of one's own nation. This kind of "individualism" that people enjoy having would cease to exist. 
• Similar to the previous disadvantage, one common language would be that the world would simply be boring. This "uniformity" of the world would loose our culture. 
• Another disadvantage is that everyone's history would be the same (roughly) because with no diversity comes no disputes as there are (practically) no opposing forces contrasting each other,  meaning that a countries value that was built on their history would be lost. 
• Although this is a small disadvantage, it is worth saying that certain linguist jobs as well as human-translator jobs would be lost. 

More than words: Are 'emoji' dumbing us down or enriching our communications?

Claim #1 - A New Language
Emojis had come to life in 1990s Japan where it had soon established its own individual fame in the world as it was a "utopian idea" of pictorial language that could be understand by every human being on Earth. Originally, it was inspired by manga art and the Kanji characters, but was officially created by Shigetaka Kurita who had signed off to allow it to be used in the Japanese mobile networks DoCoMo. The article, when discussing it in this manner, subtly suggests that this was a new language  brought to people as it could convey stories such as can be seen in its 'translation' from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" (calling it "Emoji Dick"), that many have noted that the translation is quite accurate. Therefore, it can be said that like any translation into French or Tagalog, the article raises the question whether it can become its own one day with the same prestige as already-existing languages.

Claim #2 - An Addition to Language
The second claim suggests that it is an addition to our language. What is meant by this is that it adds emotion and (sometimes) context to an email or any piece of writing where words cannot reach that replication of thought. For example, if one were to write that "the jam is made", one would not know whether the person is excited or bored writing has no clear tone as vocal speech does. Hence, the reason why it adds to conversation as smiley-faces or the devil emoticon permit readers to interpret the emotion of the person on the other end; therefore, leaving less area for misinterpretation. In conclusion, emojis have added a sort of playfulness to language as the article sates that it "cushions the impact of criticism". From this, it is suffice to question whether language should be kept formal as done pre-Kurita, or regard it as just a form of communication where its about getting the message across simply.