What If You Spoke Every Language? | The What-If Scale Ep. 5

Ask for directions anywhere, watch foreign films without subtitles, make friends in every corner of the world. But if you understand every language, is there anything left you can tune out? The What-If Scale weighs every superpower: what you gain, and what it costs. Would you take this power? Which way does your scale tip? Tell me in the comments. Fact check: according to Ethnologue, about 7,100 to 7,200 languages are spoken today (the count shifts slightly between editions). Hearing every conversation on the planet is a thought experiment based on that. Source: https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/how-many-languages/ Animation drawn with code. Narration uses an AI voice. #whatif #animation #superpowers #languages