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From the perspective of a non-native speaker of the language, it seems to me that the United States is English's killer product. A great deal of the credit for
by Arun2009 9y ago
From the perspective of a non-native speaker of the language, it seems to me that the United States is English's killer product. A great deal of the credit for the English language's dominance must go to the US and the culture and technology it exports relentlessly all over the world. Far from killing the English language as the author complains, the US might just have made it prevail over similar contenders like Spanish or Mandarin.
- Spearchucker 9y agoLet's see how this turns out over the next decade or so. Both the US and the UK have and are slowly withdrawing from the world stage, making English less and less important. Without the UK in the EU, for example, why would English need to remain the common language when German is the most spoken language in Europe?
- aquadrop 9y agoMost spoken first language. But much more people can speak English overall. When people from Greece, Sweden, Estonia, Slovenia meet, they will most probably could speak English as common language, not German. Let's all stick to one global language, it would be so much easier for everyone...
- SirFatty 9y ago"Both the US and the UK have and are slowly withdrawing from the world stage..." What a crock...
- Spearchucker 9y agoLeaving the EU isn't a withdrawal? Can you elaborate a little more eloquently?