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There are a lot more things that we should be spending our time on in this world rather than teaching everyone multiple languages.

The natural thing to do is gravitate toward one language.

It may come as a shock to you, but some people learn languages more easily than others, but these are relativly few and far between. My sister was one such person. For the rest of us its a never ending struggle.

Would you buy a computer that that could not communicate in TCP/IP?

The natural thing to do is gravitate toward one language.

Well, I think that would be a loss -- reading Foundation (by Asimov) when he says everyone speaks Galactic Basic, is scary. I think we've all got the capacity to be at least trilingual (come on -- English, French, German, Spanish aren't that dissimilar -- if you ask me to pick up Chinese, now THAT would be a challenge, but there are many Chinese Americans who converse fluently in BOTH languages (and maybe another language as well)). I don't think its an ability, but rather the willingness to learn. We need to make these people learn English and communicate in English I agree, but enforcing it, well, I disagree.

Would you buy a computer that that could not communicate in TCP/IP?

well, NO. But if it could communicate in other protocols as well, I'd like that!