The World's Most Powerful Language

If you think about the world's most powerful language, what comes to your mind first of all?

I thought about this for a moment. My first thought: money. But then, I looked at the sleeping baby on my chest and realised that the strongest and most powerful language of all is the language of love. Even money can't corrupt true love.

You ask why I come up with this topic, and what it has to do with languages? Well, granted, neither money nor love are languages in the closer sense of the word. However, you can communicate a whole lot with both, without ever using a single word from another language. And isn't that exactly what defines a language, the power to communicate with it?

When money is used as a means of communication, it can convey both positive and negative meanings. If someone gives you money to help you out, it is definitely a positive meaning, a sense of friendship and trust. If someone pays you for a service, it communicates valuation of your services, often combined with appreciation. However, if someone withholds money due, or asks for money in order to "protect" you or to keep quiet, money can suddenly become a means of negative communication. There is someone who thinks your services are not worth the money agreed on, or someone who threatens you and wants money in order to keep from fulfilling his threat.

Love, on the other hand, is a language designed to make us feel good. A single smile, a gentle touch or a kiss can say more than 1,000 words (yes, I know, this is a cliché...but it fits here). It tells you that you are loved, cherished and wanted. Even if you felt really bad just a moment ago, the language of love can make you feel good again in a matter of seconds.