David Crystal - Is control of English shifting away from British and American native speakers?

**~~Treffie~~** · 10-12-2010, 05:26 PM

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**~~Eldritch~~** · 10-12-2010, 05:36 PM

I wasn't aware that the English language is under someone's control.

**~~Aemma~~** · 10-12-2010, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Eldritch

I wasn't aware that the English language is under someone's control.

I think more accurately that would be "under someoneses or sometwoses or somethreeses" control?

All these sources of informationS!

**Wyn** · 10-12-2010, 06:01 PM

Bloody foreigners and their Englishes.

**~~Cato~~** · 10-12-2010, 07:04 PM

I do say!

We must FREE the English language! God bless America!

**Korbis** · 10-12-2010, 08:00 PM

English is already a bastardized language to begin with.

We should clean up the vocabulary of all the french or spanish words currently in use, and create an alternative for all of them before claim "purity" of language.

**007** · 10-12-2010, 08:03 PM

OK, you can start, amigo

**anonymaus** · 10-12-2010, 08:03 PM

"Weight of usage" is the key phrase here. He's spot on.

**~~Cato~~** · 10-12-2010, 08:06 PM

It doesn't make any difference to me if the use of English shifts or changes; some Chinese or Indian who speaks perfect English is just an English-speaking Chinese or Indian.

I don't speak the same kind of English as that of, say, 18th century North America or 16th century England.

**Comte Arnau** · 10-12-2010, 08:16 PM

If English is to fully become the first really global language, that is, the Earth language, the price it'll have to pay is a complete bastardization. Eventually it will simplify and dialectalize even more.