I wouldn’t be too surprised if English will end up a bit like Latin did, being used as an international language long after the empire that made it the dominant language has disappeared. The reason people wants to learn English is that so many other people speak it, there’s a lot of inertia to those kind of things.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if English will end up a bit like Latin did, being used as an international language long after the empire that made it the dominant language has disappeared. The reason people wants to learn English is that so many other people speak it, there’s a lot of inertia to those kind of things.
Are you saying English will split into a bunch of mutually unintelligible languages around the world?