tarheel91 said:
Huh? What's this supposed to mean? How is a language ruining a country? |
I was think the same thing. :-/
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tarheel91 said:
Huh? What's this supposed to mean? How is a language ruining a country? |
I was think the same thing. :-/
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oldschoolfool said: other countries know English,better than The United States. |
You couldn't be anymore right with that statement. I'm an American, and I suck at English. Now my math and science skills gave me a free ride to Auburn University! Back to the subject. The United States ruins English.
c03n3nj0 said:
I was think the same thing. :-/ |
was just wondering how you non Spanish speakers feel about Spanish? i was shocked when i visited Texas last year at the amount of Spanish there is in day to day life from tv to buying food!!
There we go.
And can you imagine, the Germans even dub their English show into German - in the Netherlands and in Belgium we subtitle everything. English is even more prevalent here.
I don't mind. I enjoy the fact that English is so prevalent in our culture and language as it gives us the opportunity to connect more easily with various people across the globe. The focus on English also ensures that on an international market basis we are better equiped when it comes to trade and business.
I have seen this in practice when I followed a course of international marketing on my university. The Dutch, Germans and Swedish spoke near-fluent English. The Spanish managed well but the Asian students had a lot of problems following the classes and conversations.
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Language is constantly evolving, English itself is a result from loads of smaller languages merging and evolving over time, what we're starting to see now is the beginnings of a global language - at the moment, it seems like this is English taking over the world, but, in the future, we'll be seeing Indian and Chinese words influencing over every-day speak.
Language is merely a means of communication, and it shouldn't have any kind of nationalism attached. There's a reason why efforts to try and protect dying languages aren't brilliantly successful, and why purposefully-created languages such as Esperanto fail to take off in any meaningful way.