What a silly article, he should read some Wittgenstein, the purpose of a language is to communicate - English has won the darwinian race to become the global st

What a silly article, he should read some Wittgenstein, the purpose of a language is to communicate - English has won the darwinian race to become the global standard for this - stop moaning, accept it and get over it, there is nothing you or anyone can do now. Many dimwits believe Mandarin will take on this role - zero chance (unless by force) it's too late, Mandarin does not have the geographic reach and is fatally handicapped by it's crazily difficult to master, pictorial text representation system, which even natives struggle with. All Human languages have faults and are difficult. The effort and time to master a foreign language is huge for most of us, therefore the benefit must be equally huge. English is the only langauge that provides enough benefit and thus incentive to learn, for the vast majority. English also has by far the largest vocabulary - therefore must be the best system we have,to describe abstract ideas or to represent reality. The only factor I can think of that might stop English being understood by nearly every human within a couple of generations or so is real time translation, which would actually be a shame I think.