View Poll Results: Is your language affected by globalization of English?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pontios View Post
    We are talking about specifically the ENGLISH language and its affect on your language, not the grammar of most people.
    I know that, and I am saying that first and foremost the language is dying from the inside before it is conquered from the outside.

    The real problem here being that newer generations of Greeks don't learn their language and/or they don't appreciate its vastness and richness. They don't speak it correctly and they butcher the language in everyday use. Foreign loan words is the tip of the iceberg here, the problem is much deeper.

    I am sure English speakers can totally identify with what I am saying here, in regards to their own language and the way it is spoken today by the majority of the population.

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    Actually I think English is the worst affected language. The English used by most native speakers today is appalling. Government schools more or less gave up teaching English decades ago. Now it is just propaganda.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Qemist View Post
    The English used by most native speakers today is appalling.
    Yes my point exactly. I've often been told that my English skills are quite better than those of the average native speaker and I consider my English skills to be average (good for a non-native speaker of course). But I have had the chance to verify the above statement as true, in several occasions, and it is indeed very sad.

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