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: 3, Informative) by kazzie on Monday January 28 2019, @04:36PM (1 child)
But the Vogons don't make love or war, they make paperwork.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @01:46PM
What? Seriously? You don't consider Vogon poetry warfare?
Pah. What sector are you from anyway?