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which is it

Love (sex)
14
42%
Music
13
39%
Flipping people off...
6
18%
 
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give me some more ideas
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I vote both for Sex and Music.
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Its actually math.

But I still vote for sex.
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Whoa whoa whoa! Where's Math! I vote Math!

"12:45, restate my assumptions. One: Mathematics is the language of nature..."

Props to whoever recognizes that quote.



edit: I totally replied before reading any of the posts and didn't see that someone had already pointed out the absence of math. :)
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I'd say sex. I was going to say music but then I realized that non-instrumental music can be in many many many different languages. So if you are listening to a song with a different language than your own, it won't mean as much since you don't know the true intensions of the composer and writer.

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its from pi :)

i vote music.
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wouldn't tattooing be also be part of the unerversial language because all different types of cultures do tattooing
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tattooing is not communication tho

you could say eating is a the universal language, or being alive
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i chose music i listen to some bands taht are in german and u dont have to know the words as long as the beat and the rest of the song is good
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some guy created a language that he wanted to be the universal language. his plan was for everyone in the world to learn and use the laguage he made---it didnt work out.
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I voted for love (sex), however, I think that grouping those two things together is a huge mistake. they are VERY different. However, both universal languages. But still, seemed a little naive to me. I am just a hopeless romantic though, but music is really international too. no, I would like to modify that. All ART is universal. Music, fine arts, dance, etc... Yes. Art.
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Post by Thom »

I'm going with Zach on this one. I can think of a few bands that I listen to that arent in English but in particular a band called sigur ros. They speak there own language (hopelantic) so no one knows what there saying but its some of the best music I've listened to and in a strange way it makes sense!
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"If you smile at me, I will understand, because that is something everybody does in the same language" - CSN
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Sorry matt, but it IS a form of communication. A Visual form. Animals smile too :) Also, the universal language was callled.....ARG I cant remember.. amalgalm.. anarasism.OEKYFOTO... PINALISTM.. DAMNIT its on the tip of my BRAIN. SUNTA! OCCIPITAL


ESPERANTO!!!!!!

i had to look it up hehe
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Post by Jeremy »

I voted music. I think love is obviously a universal language too, but it only expresses a small number of emotions. Music can be used to express every emotion, and even if it was written in a different language, you can still understand the emotion.
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Footbag :P
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qphox wrote:Whoa whoa whoa! Where's Math! I vote Math!

"12:45, restate my assumptions. One: Mathematics is the language of nature..."

Props to whoever recognizes that quote.



edit: I totally replied before reading any of the posts and didn't see that someone had already pointed out the absence of math. :)

yea i would say math too, and it's from pi, a very very messed up movie =P
after math i would have to say love i guess.
and on the topic of esperanto, it was a inocent enough idea i guess and seems like a good one at first glance. everybody can understand eachother etc etc. but have you ever read books like 1984 with "newspeak"(sp?) where language is used as a form of control. esperanto was a bit too simple it cut down on vocabulary and stuff like that, which is a bad thing. i personally think the more words the better, the more acurately we can describe etc. andyway enough rambling for now
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love, it's a universal language... but no one understands it.
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some guy created a language that he wanted to be the universal language. his plan was for everyone in the world to learn and use the laguage he made---it didnt work out.
It was called Esperanto. Mix between spanish, english and something else. A lot of science fiction writers were really excited about and started encorporateing it in their books but it never really took off. Now only small groups of people get together to speak. Its as useful as learning Klingon.
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