English language domination (English becoming the World Language... Goodbye French)

News24.com ^ | 2/12/05

[FormerACLUmember]

English is not the easiest language, being a hodge podge of Germanic, Romance, and other influences, not to mention the fact that it has far, far more words than any other language.

But is is becoming the universal language of all humanity, thanks in large measure to the internet!

[lilylangtree]

What tickled me is when Condi Rice spoke French while visiting there this week. Mainstream media like to quote how Jackie Kennedy won over Paris. Unfortunately, mainstream media refuses to acknowledge kudos to Condi Rice for the same thing.

[paudio]

Has French ever been a world's lingua franca? I thought it was mostly the language of the elites.

[FormerACLUmember]

Nothing, absolutely nothing about Condi's talents. As a black, the racist liberals want to portray her as a moron.

[FormerACLUmember]

France was the language of diplomacy (and still is) since the 1700s.

[nwrep]

English is the defacto language of prosperity and technology. I don't know why anyone would want to waste their time learning French. Plus, French makes you sound like a homo.

[SouthernFreebird]

Where does that leave all the Mexicans here that refuse to learn and speak English.

[prion]

English is not the easiest language, being a hodge podge of Germanic, Romance, and other influences, not to mention the fact that it has far, far more words than any other language.

It's a hard language to master, but an easy language to get your point across in. You can mangle it pretty badly and it's still intelligible.

[Polybius]

......with the number of pupils studying French dwindling every year,

Hey, if you are going to study a dead language, you might as well study Latin instead of French. ;-)

[FormerACLUmember]

Where does that leave all the Mexicans here that refuse to learn and speak English.

Well, thanks to the democrats' "bilingual education" impoverished and enslaved. Which is EXACTLY where the democrats want them.

[FormerACLUmember]

LOL. Latin (plus basic Greek) gives you better SAT verbal scores to boot!

[FormerACLUmember]

"Plus, French makes you sound like a homo."

LOL

[nwrep]

Where does that leave all the Mexicans here that refuse to learn and speak English.

There are always toilets to clean.

[Ticonderoga34]

English is becoming the World Language while America is becoming bilingual. Does that make any sense? Not to me.

[Bertha Fanation]

Bye bye French. Bye bye froggies. Not too sad to see you croak.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[English] is becoming the universal language of all humanity

Dja tink it'll catch on here in America?

[FreedomSurge]

I vote for making Pig-Latin the world's language.

Everybody would be laughing so hard at what everyone else was saying, there would no longer be room for hate or discrimination or ickkyness towards others.

[FormerACLUmember]

Ixnay on the igpay atinlay.

[ahayes]

Begone, DU plant! ;-)

[bahblahbah]

English is a good language IMO because of its ability to just take words from other languages and adapt.

I wish I still had a link to a study on US Internet imperialism. I think it was rather old but it would talk about Internet traffic between two european countries that would still route through the US, how our telecom companies rigged the bandwidth so that the bandwidth going from the US to smaller counties would far exceed bandwidth going from smaller countries to the US, and a bunch of other things on how the Internet was centered around the US.