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by Afrikan Kay on January 29th, 2008
england colonizing half of the world. as the saying went "the sun never sets on the british empire"
by jezz on January 29th, 2008
I See it as a form of "money talks".The U.S dollar was such a heavyweight for so long and before that the British empire..Its only natural we aren't all speaking
creole.
by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on January 30th, 2008
I really don't know. It is by no means the most widely spoken language..and it is a very young language. Young languages tend to lack the ease of communication and tend to be difficult with a large number of irregular forms incorporated into them. I think that maybe one of the reasons that English is gaining status is that the word order is not as rigid as in some other languages..You can make errors in English and still be fully understood as to what you 'meant' to say.
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Thanks. That may be one of the reasons. Bit others like French and Spaniards also colonised many Countriies.
by Brahmanyan on January 29th, 2008
Yup. That's why Brazilians speak Portuguese, Mexicans speak Spanish, people from Cameroon speak French etc.
by ACCOUNT CLOSED on January 29th, 2008
Yes. But those languages did not reach the status as World Languages as English.
by Brahmanyan on January 29th, 2008
Actually, I think the global number of French-speakers and Spanish-speakers (each) eclipsed the number of English-speakers for quite a while...until about the 18th century.
by ACCOUNT CLOSED on January 29th, 2008
May be true. Now it is English.
by Brahmanyan on January 30th, 2008
oui, monsieur.
by ACCOUNT CLOSED on January 30th, 2008