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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 28 2019, @04:14PM (1 child)
Sure, as an agglutinative language Turkish has that ability, but it's not common. German, though an Indo-European language, has that ability to string lots of words together into one term, but it's not used. In fact, it's only a rueful joke told by non-German speakers who struggle to learn that language.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:08PM
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