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Interesting video about English

3rdblade,2011年7月6日の

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言語: English

3rdblade (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月6日 9:55:42

Quite an entertaining & illuminating series of videos about the history of English here:

Diablo (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月6日 14:09:30

3rdblade:Quite an entertaining & illuminating series of videos about the history of English here:
Haha! If more knowledge was dispensed in such an interesting manner, the world would be a better place for it.

Thumbs up to Open U, thanks 3rdBlade! sal.gif

ceigered (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月7日 10:28:19

Tutbonegega ligilo!

Leke (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月7日 14:57:03

Nice video. I laughed hardest at the clitoris joke rido.gif

The last part was handy to know as fodder for the 'Everyone should just speak English' camp.

ceigered (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月8日 9:23:51

Leke:The last part was handy to know as fodder for the 'Everyone should just speak English' camp.
"It probably shouldn't be called English at all, and if it does get a new name it'll probably be in Chinese".

Very fun ridulo.gif

qwertz (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月9日 15:38:26

Some crazy stuff: Jay Walker on the world's English mania

2:04 min: "... China will be become the world largest English speaking country ...".

ceigered (プロフィールを表示) 2011年7月11日 5:32:47

qwertz:Some crazy stuff: Jay Walker on the world's English mania

2:04 min: "... China will be become the world largest English speaking country ...".
I haven't even gotten to watching the video yet, too busy hanging around the comments section okulumo.gif

(EDIT: after having watched the video, and read the comments, many are taking what he says the wrong way I think. The man's merely speaking it as it is, he's not saying that "english is better" or "other languages suck". I can understand why some might feel like the domination of English is evil and anti-cultural or something like that, but that's a very hyped and unrealistic opinion malgajo.gif - Mr Walker does however have bad word choices and comparisons, comparing English to electricity rido.gif)

I did write this though about the idea that countries that are most wealthy and powerful have their language chosen as the international language (I won't post his comment here for privacy reasons).

My response:
Not so much the country but the culture. Since English is the representative language of modern western culture, which is more popular, it gets the most "votes", just as Arabic does in the middle east. The history is very important too. China is an incredibly powerful country, yet only china and the chinese diaspora really speak chinese, because there's no historically ingrained cultural incentive to learn it in most of the world. On the contrary for Latin there still is.

What do you all think?
And who's with me for bringing back Sumerian or ye olde Greek as the "world" language rido.gif?

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