Talk:Omnilingualism/@comment-24053170-20200217215812

Its nearly impossible to have this power in real life...

....The most languages ever spoken by a single person is about a hundred, by Sir John Bowring.

He knew about 200 languages, but he was only able to speak fluently in a hundred.

To give you an idea of how difficult this power would actually be to achieve in reality, there are about 7,111 languages currently in use in the world today.

If you add in dead and extinct languages, the number goes up to around 50,000-200,000 total.

Just try and keep that much information in your head without giving yourself an aneurysm in the process.

The human brain wasn't designed to handle something like that.

So even if you could learn this power, actually making effective use of it without tripping over every word you speak is another story altogether.