English is currently one of the dominant languages on the planet due to the spread of the US and UK empires in the last century. With the rise of technology English may be made redundant with the advent of automatic language translation.
Just waiting for made up languages to become the norm (e.g. Esperanto), or hyper language learning.
Now ponder, as Douglas Hofstadter did, translating Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky from English into French, German, and Russian (Cyrillic .GIF) or (ASCII transliteration).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @10:29PM (1 child)
You can put that brain implant into my head when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Sunday January 27 2019, @10:35PM
"Your proposal is acceptable."
-Zuckbie
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