If everyone in your country learns English you're literally

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>>66986373
>22%
feels good man

that seems way too low, surely 70-80% of young people everywhere can hold a basic conversation?

>>66986429
Not everyone is young.

>>66986373
it dosn't matter for Norway because norwegian isn't the original language anyway

I honestly wouldn't even care. If it were up to me, the entire world would speak English. I'm not some literature major that I really give a shit about the nuances of languages and whatnot.

>>66986429

Yeah, but in the places on OPs map with high proficiency English has been taught for a long time so old people can speak reasonably well. I've seen quite a few US war veterans mentioning how surprised they were that most of the Dutch civilian population could communicate with them quite comfortably, for example (whereas this was next to impossible just over the border in Belgium/France).

The above isn't strictly true for the Nordic cunts though, here German was the main second language before and during WW2, but was quickly replaced with English in the post-war period (in the case of Sweden so that people would forget that we totes collaborated on a industrial scale 2bh). Still, having been taught extensively in schools since the mid 40s means most people alive today were taught.

>>66986373
This is true.

If it weren't for the immigrant problem I'd say the English problem is the biggest cultural problem in the world.

Can't wait til the US is Mexico and England Pakistan tbqh.

>>66986373

>I give it ten years until Scandinavian countries require their classes be instructed in English.

>TFW master level courses at university is required to be held in English right now

Yeah.. We are already there.

>>66986373
>learning a second/third language means you will stop using your mother tongue
Please, this is some next level projecting

>>66986373
Call for bullshit on Austria.
Their education system is not better than ours, they got even more immigrants and even so they are small they can get media in their own language thanks to us, not like Netherlands etc.

>>66988476
We're more likely to become New Poland.

>>66988882
without to good looking women

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How can only 40% of France speak English on a conversational level when only 5% of French people online know English without asking me to speak in French because they don't understand shit?

Wouldn't the world be a better place if we only spoke one language?

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>>66988945
... no

>>66988945
Nyet

>>66988945
Yes.
In war, no.

>>66988944
french pls

>>66988945
wouldnt you be bummed if danish wasnt spoken anymore ... ?

>>66989169
REGARDEZ CETTE MERDE ! Je te deteste, tu es un stupid Pierre, fromage mangeant putain coq coq

>>66989232
Have you ever heard Danish?
It sounds like shit.

Better than Arabic

>>66989232
The Danes can't really understand each other anymore because their speech impediment (usually known as "Danish") has gotten progressively worse over time, so in their case this might be a mercy.

I jest, but seriously, Danish kids learn to understand their parents measurably later than kids in the other Nordic countries.

>implying this is true

>>66986373
>Ireland
>only 94%
I don't believe you

>>66989428
Being in Denmark as a Swede is fucking surreal, it's probably the only circumstance where you can read every book, magazine and sign fluently but understand jack shit when someone speaks to you. Copenhagen's fine, I guess (at least I understand the dialect there), but I went to Padborg a few months ago and Jesus fucking christ.

>>66989232
Would you be bummed if you stopped speaking bulgarian is the true question? Probably not you ungrateful fyrom nigger. Admit you are bulgar or Belene.

>>66990071
niet, also fuck off were talking about other things itt

Spanish-speaking people are just stupid and lazy. Explains why the world is in the state that it is.

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>hold a conversation in any language

>>66990193
>register girl at ICA said both "hi" and "have a nice weekend"
>creamed my pants
w-why won't they just leave me alone?

>>66986373
>34%
>Italy
HAHAHAHAHAHA, no. This chart is bullshit.

>>66986373
>A universal language isn't a good thing.
>>66989500
There's still a good many Irish speakers in the parts of the countryside.

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>>66989500
ethnic enclaves in cities tend to foster a lack of linguistic integration

only about 70% of new york city residents can speak english

>>66986373
>I give it ten years until Scandinavian countries require their classes be instructed in English.
Most university courses in the Netherlands are already in English.
I'm scared.

>>66990444
wtf, u telling me theres like 3 mil people in NY that dont speak english? i dont believe u

>>66986373
Good only worthless cucks care about national identity, I am proud of who I am and my achievements, not something as stupid as nationality or skin color

>>66990612

Try going to chinatown, it's pretty hard to get around with only English 2bh.

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>>66988945
The "benevolent" God has thought otherwise perhaps?

>>66988944
We just don't want to use english, it's too difficult to pronounce.

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>dfn for intlegænt til å lær andre språk

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>>66990649

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>>66990718
>tfw I could understand that

>>66988662
Most people here already use plenty of English words and expressions in both formal and informal speech.

I couldn't be more apathetic about the inevitable demise of Scandinavian languages even if I tried.
The question is, will everyone still have Scandinavian accents when it happens? Let's ignore memes about African or Muslim people taking over for a second.
Would it be like India where people speak the language pretty fine but they have very heavy accents, or would it be like America where a new, unique accent is created?

>>66988945
What a terrible thing to ask.

>>66990840
Don't Indians speak Hindi?

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>>66990840
>tfw the British empire is dead but it still spreads its language
Why are the British so amazing?

>>66990840
im guessing you'll keep a scandi accent, US accent was mixed from all over the place and it resulted in that
also they really simplified the language and thats not a bad thing, color for example is pronounced color not fuckin colour, brits

>>66986429
70-80% of people cannot hold basic in russian, never mind english

>>66990840

I think we'll get a kind of Creole language tbqh... Svengelska is already halfway there.

>>66990612

Never seen a movie in which an elderly Italian or Chinese (the most frecuent type, but can be of any other nationality) needs the translation of her husband, kids or grandkids to comunicate with any of the characters cause she does not speak English?

>>66991048
yeah but i thought those were like recent arrivals
pretty crazy, i dont feel comfortable visiting a country where i dont understand the language let alone STAYING

>>66990825
That does not mean they'll start switching to English.
Take for example the Iranian language; Farsi. It is filled with loan-words, but they still speak Farsi, and not Arabic in Iran.

>>66991028
kek

>>66989428
No it doesn't

>>66991162
It's called Persian, not Farsi.
Persians are very proud of who they are and dislike Arabs. Plus, the Iranian government has a clear policy on language, urging its people to not use foreign words.
Look at Alsace Lorraine for example. People became bilingual for practical reasons and now the German dialects are going extinct.

>>66986373
Why can't brits speak english?

>>66991085

I suppose that such people who dont learn the language are the elderly women who dont really work outside home, the ones which at most only left the home to stay in a neighbourhood which already has plenty of their own countrymen.

>>66988476
LMFAO STFU POTATOFUCKER

>>66991344
They speak urdu in londinistan

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>>66990612
I imagine they can read words like restroom, elevator, exit, enter, ect, but my 5 year old nephew with a diagnosed speech impediment can hold a better conversation in english

>>66987226
>here German was the main second language before and during WW2

That was also the case here

>>66991487
>iraqis in idaho
EXILE THEM NOW REE

>>66990791
Because you know the meme he's translating

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>>66990920

>>66991280
>It's called Persian, not Farsi.
Nigga the language is called Farsi.
>Plus, the Iranian government has a clear policy on language, urging its people to not use foreign words.
The Iranian theocracy WANTS its people to speak more Arabic, it's the language of Islam after all.

>>66986373
people are not gonna stop speaking their native language just because they know another.

>>66991773
BASED sheep island poster

Now vocaroo

>>66986373
>mfw in the country that invented english there are people who can't hold a conversation in english

does this graph include immigrants? if not, wtf i hate britain now?

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>>66990612

>>66991817
mic dont work :(

>>66991948
>does this graph include immigrants?
Even if it doesn't, keep in mind that ~5% of people might simply have some kind of impediment or disability that prevents them from speaking the language even if they understand it.
Like if someone's voice box is damaged and they can't speak normally, or they are deaf-mute and have to use sign language, or if they're simply (literally) retarded to the degree where they can't understand anything.
If you take into account all those different impediments that could affect language, ~5% of the population being unable to speak the language sounds fine.

>>66991487
>Bhutan
Huh.

>>66992085

Indeed, similarily to how any country, no matter how developed, will "only" have a 99% literacy rate to account for retards and the like.

>>66992134

Probably because of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhotshampa

>>66991667
It's called Farsi in Persian, however for some reason we started calling it so, even if the original English name for it was Persian.

Then why the language reforms?
Sure, they want the people to understand Arabic, but not to mix it with their Persian.

>>66992337
Probably. I've seen Bhutan in more than a few sources for refugee data and couldn't quite figure it out just by looking at the country. It looks like a pretty okay place.

Well, except for the ones that were thrown out, I suppose.

>>66992085
>>66992211
But 5% though? I think Welshmen play a larger role. Besides, there's clearly a 'greater then' sign (>) next to it.

>>66990173
Are u saying your sons will be stupid and lazy?

>>66987222
Cuck.

>>66986373
>34%
I'm sure it's lower, they probably asked the young people only, and Italy is an old country

>>66988945
Every person should like every other person because they speak the same language?

Thats not how it works

>>66990825
Here too, buuut and here is the catcher:

Most people who use a deluge of anglicisms uses them because they think they are "cool" and often cannot actually even speak English. It is not the fluent speakers of English who are killing our language, those usually separate the languages enough in their head.

>>66986373
I wish it was French instead of English because reasons.

>>66991085
New York has been that way for about a century and a half.
First it was the Dutch, then the Germans, then the Irish, then the Italians, then the Chinese, ect

>>66991948
It's the Welsh's fault

>>66989639
Don't feel bad. I'm from there, and many Danes don't understand what I'm saying if I speak with a dialect.

>>66989428
I never get the meme about it sounding ugly, it just sounds more German than the other Scandi languages. Then again, I like the Danish of West Slavic languages (Polish).

>>66993031
This, and in former Yugoslavia, everybody but Macedonians (and they know it as a second language) speak Serbo-croatian natively. We all know what a paradise former Yugoslavia was in the last 20 years.

>>66993008
Sry, meant to quote you, not myself.

>>66993008
*Macedonia and Slovenia.

>>66986373
>I give it ten years until Scandinavian countries require their classes be instructed in English.

This is already the case for most of the stuff in college here. A fair share of learning materials and lectures are held in English. It's cheaper and more extensive than Swedish alternatives. It's required to have good grades in English for pretty much anything above high school levels anyway.

Fun fact though. Back when I was in high school we actually had a school wide survey on whether you'd be ok with phasing out Swedish as our native language and replacing it with English and I believe it ended something like 70% being fine with the idea.

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>>66988945
>Wouldn't the world be a better place if we only spoke one language?
Because unifying and ultimately borrowing more money solves everything.

>>66993551
Swedes are the only ones that can speak with a perfect accent, even if english isn't there native language.

>>66989465
A spaniard in Portugal will have the exact same feeling

>>66993696
>speak with a perfect accent
What does that even mean?

>>66993701
Shit it was meant for :

>>66989639

Btw, the problem with "utopian" opinions of the "we should all speak one language" type is that languages NEVER stay the same. This does not change in the age of mass media, in fact the Great Wowel Shift happened in English just as theater and printing press were taking off. People do not all speak in the Hollywood accent, despite hearing it from movies. In short, if you had English kill all other languages (like Latin did with mainland Celtic languages btw), after a few centuries, there would be no English anymore. There would be a family of wildly differing "Anglic" languages that all originated from English, but were not English any more than Portuguese is Latin.

>>66990901
I thought a southie of all people would know Indians speak Hindi AND English. It would have been English alone, but Pakistan seceded, so India has two official languages: Hindi, the language of Hindus and English, the international lingua franca. Both are taught throughout the country and have equal status.

5% of Indians speak English as a native language, but 30% speak it fluently.

>>66993551
Why are you so eager to destroy your culture and people. Inb4 "Sweden has no culture", I fucking watched Emil from Lonnenberg and Pippi Long Stockings as a tiny tot in 1990s provincial Slovakia, which is not exactly a place where you would expect to encounter some Swedish culture. Stop cucking yourself.

>>66993826
Also south of India speaks Dravidian languages like Tamil and Kannada.

>>66993696

You mean they can speak english with a perfect north american accent.

>>66993696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRtxy1BEFP8

>>66993727
I meant this >>66993898

>>66993943
kek, maybe it's just the hockey players then

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>>66993741
sure spoken language is constantly shifting and evolving, but a universal form of writing would be pretty kick ass

Having a relatively simple language such as English as lingua franca is awesome. 5 countries neighboring Austria are speaking a different language, yet I can talk with people from all those places. It's really practical.

>>66988662
This is true though.
There are people who due to speaking English is school exclusively they can't speak to their parents at all Because they forgot their mother tongue.

>>66993854
Why would it destroy our culture? We can still jump up and down like frogs around a dick of flowers while singing in the summers like we always have.

>>66993994
But the lingua franca should be a made up language, so that it wouldn't carry a particular cultural and political background, even more so when it's the language of the first world economic power.

Maybe your languages shouldn't be so shit that English becomes a more convenient alternative .

>>66993696

lolno, Swedish English accent sounds like shit, our melody and cadence is super fucking unsuitable for it. Danes have the best English accent of the Scandis, funnily enough.

>>66993854

People here are fucking retarded, whenever you mention Swedish culture some fucktard SJW will go off at you demanding "specific Swedish cultural traits". Basically they feel that it has to be unique, if it exists anywhere else it's not Swedish, so that means we should import every sandnigger in existence. They can't grasp that Sweden is a part of the larger, European and Western cultural sphere, but we have our own flair of it just like everyone else. Then again, they're SJWs so you can't really expect them to actually produce a rational thought or care about facts and shit.

As for the English thing, it's mostly because our media and entertainment is 90% from the Anglosphere so young people are as familiar with it as they are with Swedish, it's not odd or weird or foreign to us, really.

>>66993898
The thing about Scandis and their English cuckoldry is that their languages work much like English. Almost all Slovaks have English in school, however, English does not work like Slovak. We find many things natural in our language that freak English speakers out and we find many things in English that are hard for us. Our language works on declensions, almost free word order, phonetic writing and just 3 tenses, as opposed to English which has almost no declension, shitton of tenses, writing system that has nothing to do with how it is pronounced and strict word order.

>>66994058

That would be ideal, but English proliferation has already decided this for us, it already IS the lingua franca in everything that matters. The race is already over.

>>66994058
That would be ideal, but hardly practical.
Languages like English or Spanish are ok for this because of the logical grammar. Let's be glad it's not a clusterfuck of a language with exceptions of eceptions of exceptions.

>>66994226
Are you implying that your language is a clusterfuck with exceptions of exceptions of exceptions?

>>66993854
It's is a fact of the world.

>>66994226
If every school in europe taught esperanto (easy language to learn, logical and regular ) instead of english, everybody in the world would learn esperant to communicate (for business, for tourism etc.. ) Cultures and languages would not be threatened as esperant isn't linked with a country or a particular culture, it wouldn't carry any cultural/political meaning. It'd be ideal (and would force those fatasses overseas to learn another language)

>>66994044
Language and literary tradition is an important part of the national culture.

>As for the English thing, it's mostly because our media and entertainment is 90% from the Anglosphere so young people are as familiar with it as they are with Swedish, it's not odd or weird or foreign to us, really.

I can understand that. We have the same with Czech, however, Czech is barely a different language (92 percent shared vocabulary and we don't learn it in school or elsewhere, we understand it because it is similiar) so it feels a lot more natural. However, we never speak it, onlz understand it, because Czech people can understand Slovak, but don't speak it, so it doesn't threaten our language.

>>66994058
The lingua franco should be Latin again you literal pleb

>>66994339
Most Germanic languages aside from English has this problem, tbqh.

>>66994351
Why are you pretending Western cuckoldry habits are "facts of the world"?

>>66994381
english sounds better than esperento 2bh

>>66994403
Well you should take some lessons then, 'cuz lingua franco for sure doesn't mean anything in latin

>>66994496
that's rude 2bh, it was just a typo

>>66994012
This is very sad.

>>66993994
Norwegian and Swedish are naturally mutually intelligible without use of any "lingua francas" yet they decided to throw their languages away and replace them with disgusting English.

>>66994483
Because you've been brainwashed by all the cultural dominance of the anglosphere, if from the day of your birth you listen to music in english, watch movies and series in english and use english words because it's "cool" then you'll not be able to think of it as an ugly language.

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>>66994058
>But the lingua franca should be a made up language, so that it wouldn't carry a particular cultural and political background, even more so when it's the language of the first world economic power.
but unfortunalty we cannot, we must play the hand we are dealt

would you rather we speak chinese as the lingua franca?

>>66994692
Wow, Shinese is fucked up.

>>66994644
the main issue i have with phasing out all other languages but one is the lack of media from other languages, languages limit media a bit, i listen to lots of foreign music, if all music was in english thatd suck imo

>>66994692
We can, we just have to teach esperanto or interlingua or volapuk to childrens in the eu instead of english. The eu is the biggest economic power, and the most touristic place in the world and where people travel abroad the most. So everybody would soon learn the language we choose just to be able to do business with us

>>66994644
This.
We have everything dubbed in Slovak or Czech, so we don't quite have it like this. English seems to have an abudance of w and unclear wowels, like everything was spoken with a potato in the mouth.

Doubles for second British empire

>>66988945
i'm deadly serious here
kill yourself

The globalist in me thinks it would be cool if everybody spoke the same language, but the loss of culture would be so great that it would probably negate the economic and social benefit of achieving this.

Does anyone have any stats regarding wars fought between countries that share the same language vs countries that don't? How does language factor into war on a grand scale?

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>>66994840
but by doing absolutely nothing we could speak english as a lingua franca

which do you think the average person will want to do more, spend months or years learning a made up language so the french can stop pouting, or absolutely nothing?

hmmmm, I wonder what the world will choose...

>>66995100
>Sweden
I laugh every time

>>66994994
Most of Yugoslavia speaks one language (Serbo-croatian) and it only lead to Serbs claiming that because Croats speak the same as them, they are really Serbs in denial, Croats claimng Serbs are just Croats in denial etc... basically claims on the other nation. We all know how Yugoslavia ended. Nowadays, they all say they are speaking separate "languages" despite speaking the same, because they hate each other.

On the other hand, we have a very similiar language to Czech and if anything, it only helped our relations, when we broke up Czechoslovakia, we did so in a bloodless, civilized manner, we visit our respective countries, can talk to each other in our mother tongue and we can watch each other's TV. So the best situation seems to be when you have languages that are distinct enough to distinguish but similiar enough to understand.

Netherlands confirmed Anglo

>>66995100
But we're doing a lot of efforts right now to learn english all over the world, we'll just make these efforts in learning another common language. It'll do good for y'all fatasses overseas

>>66994994
As I mentioned in a previous post, this same language would never stay, because it would split up into different ones over time. Proto-Indo-European probably functioned as a lingua franca at one time (as evidenced by the vast diversity of people who speak Indo-European languages) and pushed out all the old European languages other than Basque. Yet now, when you look at Icelandic and Albanian, they are extremely different, both children of the same ancient language.

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>>66994994
>The globalist in me thinks it would be cool if everybody spoke the same language, but the loss of culture would be so great that it would probably negate the economic and social benefit of achieving this.

if everyone in the world magically spoke only one language only then just wait a year and there would be a couple hundred new languages in no time

how do you thing languages "appear"? does god just drop random dictionaries full of new languages every so often? no creoles evolve into foreign languages, vulgar slang becomes highclass speach, a made up word becomes a common colloquialism

did the roman peasants just magically forget latin and make up their own languages like french and romanian? or did regional slang slowly become more and more diverse until the root language was no longer recognizeable?

language isnt about whats logical, smart, or makes sense, no one just makes a language (well, spoken language anyways)

language isnt something thats carefully constructed, language is throwing everything at the wall, and keeping what sticks
its not about whats right or the best or the most beautiful or logical, its about what endures

>>66987222
krijg kanker

>>66995177
>turkish
>no one

>>66989232
I know i would :/

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>>66997553
>Italian
>no one

>>66989639
You do not want to go to jutland/Jylland Then

>>66988662
It is, duh
Sometime english is being used in everyday languange instead of the native

A lot of people are falsely claiming that the move to introduce a unified global language is pointless because it would eventually diverge into different languages groups.

I understand where you're coming from. This makes sense from a historical perspective, but we now live in a post Internet world. Communication is globalised and instantaneous. New dialect groups wouldn't be able to develop if the mass media kept them down

>>66986373
>t. alberto barbosa

>>66989232
No one would miss the Danish language.

>>66986373
>England
>95%

lol

>>66995560
I think you're grossly underestimating how technological innovation has changed the rules and flipped the paradigms that would've been relevant two hundred years ago.

As it stands, the fracturing of language is something that occurs optimally when the language is isolated by geographic barriers, we don't have this problem anymore as is evident by the medium on which this conversation is taking place.

You also have to consider that until the fall of feudalism and the rise of powerful central governments most nations themselves lacked a single unifying dialect of their language, the variation within a single country could lead people from one region to become almost mutually unintelligible to people from another region.

And I'd argue that while language isn't about logic or making sense, modern dissemination of standard language teaching methods in schools has made it fairly difficult for language to diverge, instead we see that most languages have converged and that regional dialects are becoming less common.

Nuclear war and the cessation of all communication as we know it not withstanding, I doubt that panamanian spanish and argentinian spanish will become mutually unintelligible no matter how many centuries pass, for example.

>>66994629
>Norwegian and Swedish are naturally mutually intelligible without use of any "lingua francas" yet they decided to throw their languages away and replace them with disgusting English.
Wrong. We talk Swedish and Norwegian inbetween eachother, you fucking mong.

>>67005884
detta

>>67005884
>>67005962
No you fucking don't, not in Australia you fucking don't you lazy fat faggots

>>67006372
maybe they want you to understand?

>>67006397
No, they said they were talking to each other only.

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Japan is very safe in that regard.

With language comes culture
American culture is unhealthy garbage
All you talk about is how much you hate us, so why are you trying to be like us?

>America doesn't own English
Yeah right then tell where 95% of your movies music and tv comes from, it's not UK it's US

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>>66986373
Also happening in Finland already.

>>66993551
This.

>>66988945
No, because translators would loose their jobs.

>>67011186
Also polyglots would not be able to show off among their friends. :P

>>67005616
>>67001143
You don't get that media does not stop language change. Here is a quote from a Scottish linguist, Justin B. Rye:
"There's a widespread popular assumption that modern technology (gramophones, cinema, CNN etc.) will stop languages changing in the new millennium, because these days everybody knows what everybody else's accent sounds like. But accents such as Cockney never did arise because working class Londoners were unaware of how the aristos talked. They knew perfectly well; but that wasn't the accent they grew up with, and there was no reason to want to imitate it when their own accent was a badge of solidarity with their peer‐group. Nothing has happened to reduce the allure of a distinctive way of speaking as a badge of in‐group membership; and the more positively people identify with some particular accent, the more likely that high‐status speech variety is to drift, as social climbers refine their vowels while the native speakers react to being imitated by innovating further. Linguists studying modern “Network English” find that it has several regional subvarieties, which are diverging rather than converging."

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>all these mad cuckbois
sorry lads, we can't all be winners

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>third world retards have so little space in their brain that any new words they learn replace old ones
t. quadrilingual master race

>>67012841
>know 3 languages "Intermediate" and 1 as native
>Quadrilingual masterrace

>>67012841
this

I really hope that English will phase out most relevant and irrelevant languages by 2100. Hell, I'd fight for that in a war.

>>66986373
>6% of irish people can't speak english
what the fuck?

>>67013253
i think that's awesome. gaelic shouldn't be a dead language

unless it's all arabs or something

>>67012972
so much this.

>i know 8 languages because i can say hello, goodbye and 'let me suck your dick' in all of them'

>>66988944
> he sees through the France meme
We're not as bad as English as our Anglophobe reputation makes it.
However, most of us prefer not trying at all since we know we're bad than to even try.
This is a real thing in the French mentality : be good at it immediately or don't show your mediocrity at it.

>>66987222
If only everyone thought like you, America could turn the earth into a complete utopia.

>>66988945
Yes.

Everyone else is trolling.

>>67013549

> Said Napoleonian France for itself
> Said Nazi Germany for itself
> Said ISIS for itself
> Said the USSR for itself
> Said the Ottoman Empire for itself

>>67013668
fuck you faggot it's impossible anyway

over time you'd end up with dialects that'd further diverge from the original language and english would end up being what latin was to romance languages.

so suck my dick

>>67012779
I suppose in countries that have nationalist movements like Scotland, the people are going to have a subconscious agenda to maintain and develop their local dialect. But in the case of England, the old northern dialects are in danger of beng lost forever.

I'm guessing this is an ongoing agument in linguistics and only time will tell.

>>67013279
Nah there is an area in Ireland that is Irish speaking as in the people there learn Irish as a first language

italy is shit as fuck, color me suprised
but in the last 5 years english literacy has improved massively thanks to the internet

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>>66988945
Fuck you, rope yourself, i'm serious. And this is coming from a finn.

>>66986373
That's easy for you to say. Spanish is one of the biggest languages and many people also speak it as a 2nd language. Spanish is not that far behind from English in terms of relevance.

Now try speaking a language with just a few million speakers and see where life gets you without English.