What is the biggest threat to English as an international language?
The downfall of US? The Rise of Chinese? The spread of the Internet or sth else?
The downfall of US? The Rise of Chinese? The spread of the Internet or sth else?
What is the biggest threat to English?
A big meteor hitting the earth, a nuclear war, a global epidemic, or some other catastrophic apocalyptic situation.
human Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:15 am GMT
A big meteor hitting the earth, a nuclear war, a global epidemic, or some other catastrophic apocalyptic situation.
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A big meteor hitting the earth, a nuclear war, a global epidemic, or some other catastrophic apocalyptic situation.
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There are only 2 languages that can threat English partially, in Asia and the Americas.
Chinese can be the lingua franca of Eastern Asia in the near future.
Spanish can be the lingua franca of the Americas yet.
In a lesser degree, all other languages too, like Swahili in Eastern Africa or Afrikaans in South Africa.
ALL languages can threat English in Internet. The percentage of pages and users in English is less important and it will be dicreasing more.
Chinese can be the lingua franca of Eastern Asia in the near future.
Spanish can be the lingua franca of the Americas yet.
In a lesser degree, all other languages too, like Swahili in Eastern Africa or Afrikaans in South Africa.
ALL languages can threat English in Internet. The percentage of pages and users in English is less important and it will be dicreasing more.
Maybe ALL languages could threaten English, but Hungarian could never threaten ANY language!
Well i could not say that if their is any threat to English because what could be threat, but yes i could agree with one of them that if world is going to end than no human no English.
Regards,
Barbara Johnson
<a href="http://www.englishbox.co.uk">English School London</a>
Regards,
Barbara Johnson
<a href="http://www.englishbox.co.uk">English School London</a>
Younger US people are the biggest threat to the language. They can't articulate a sentence without the word "like". Honesty, English is my second language, but if I could, I'd rather learn how speak it and write it British style. English in the US is boring and bland and too nasal.
<<Younger US people are the biggest threat to the language. They can't articulate a sentence without the word "like". Honesty, English is my second language, but if I could, I'd rather learn how speak it and write it British style. English in the US is boring and bland and too nasal.>>
Don't tell native speakers how to speak their language. Non-natives have no say in the matter!
Don't tell native speakers how to speak their language. Non-natives have no say in the matter!
X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent.....and while we're about it......Eastenders.....most certainly Eastenders...."oh my gawd cor blimey, woch cha on abaht, mite?"..... and maybe Coronation Street as well..."ah yer all raht, chook?...eee bah goom.... coom an' 'ave a coop o' tea, luv!".........one being a threat from the South and the other a threat from the North (from an England English perspective, that is....for us Scots both are a threat from the South anyway).
I think the greatest threat to English is the "gay accent" (no offence to gays). That flamboyant girly accent with rising intonation at the end of every sentence. This accent is spreading from flamboyant gays into the rest of the community and is rather atrocious.