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>>There is nothing unfortunate it became default, there is simply no better lingua franca today. We could try Japanese or Chinese, Hindi or Spanish, but they al
by kamaal 2y ago
>>There is nothing unfortunate it became default, there is simply no better lingua franca today. We could try Japanese or Chinese, Hindi or Spanish, but they all have way more quirks and way less qualities !
All of this is secondary, the real deal is more knowledge, especially useful knowledge is generated, and has been generated in the English language for a while now.
If you want access to the knowledge ecosystem of the world, want to learn skills, trade, want jobs, want to do business you have to learn english.
The other cultures just never caught on with this one simple thing. You have to make rationality, scientific temper and coherence the very foundational basis for your society. And then you need run these processes for long. Decades to centuries for your language to now become the carrier of knowledge. Until then other arguments are irrelevant.
- xwolfi 2y agoWhat are the other languages you speak fluently ? You're right of course, the diversity of English knowledge (and entertainment, sometimes as important) is dizzying and that's why I even learned it in the first place. But there's something strange with English knowledge: it's never quite deep. I find French materials are always a bit deeper, a bit more complex, we don't try to explain to 5 yo all the time, we don't always insist so much on the high level introductory stuff - we have a way to explain extremely complex concepts to more people I find. Just a feeling: when I want to explore I use English but when I want to dig I find more interesting stuff in French. It's very frustrating because I live abroad now, in Hong Kong, and only use English with my friends, partners etc. And sometimes I want to explain to them, give them something to read, but it's only in French because no English speaker ever tried to think to dig deeper, to give more perspective, to ask the right questions etc :D