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Only the English language is alive

Discussion in 'Western Europe' started by Interaktive, Jan 31, 2023.

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  1. Interaktive

    Interaktive Well-Known Member

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    judging by the USA and Germany, the development of one's native language is expensive and difficult
     
    Interaktive, May 31, 2023
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    51% of EU citizens speak English. They watch movies and read books in the original
     
    Interaktive, May 31, 2023
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    51% of developed countries are English-speaking
     
    Interaktive, Jun 3, 2023
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    Interaktive Well-Known Member

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    Time to think english
     
    Interaktive, Jun 3, 2023
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    I'm on it.
     
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    I don't think you have any comprehension on what it means for a language to be alive or dead.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 3, 2023
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    English is not it's own language. It ambushes other languages in dark allies and then rifles through their pockets for loose grammar and syntax.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 3, 2023
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    Most spoken is not the same as what is learned as a first language. Keep in mind that all those numbers have individuals who speak multiple languages. So that one person is included in multiple languages for statistic sakes.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 3, 2023
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    What do you mean by this?
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 3, 2023
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    I am an English-speaking cosmopolitan
     
    Interaktive, Jun 3, 2023
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  11. Maquiscat

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    Who are you responding to in this post? Because it doesn't answer my question, and without a quote to let them know you are responding to them, no one else is going to realize that you are responding to them.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 4, 2023
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    I don't know how to comment on you
     
    Interaktive, Jun 5, 2023
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    To be fair, a lot of the languages English pilfered from actually ambushed English. Thinking particularly of French & Scandanavian ones. One thing English does excel at is stealing words. Its like it just can't help itself.
     
    bigfella, Jun 5, 2023
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    And creating new ones. Which is what makes it a very difficult language to learn as a second language. Every rule has multiple exceptions, and it's well suited because of that for new words to develop.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 5, 2023
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    In the case of the recent post you note who it was you were responding to when you made it. In the prior one you explain what you meant by the development of one's native language being expensive and difficult.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 5, 2023
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    Yeah, basically ure sprǣc is geweoxen of manigum oþrum tungum. And it evolves over time because we not only absorb words and phrases from other languages, but the pronunciations change too. And there was that "Great Vowel Shift" thing. And the spellings and alphabet.
     
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    English killed all others
     
    Interaktive, Jun 6, 2023
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    Again, I don't think you have a grasp on how languages are typically referred to as far as living and dead. I'm not sure anyone else here understands how you are using living and dead in this context.
     
    Maquiscat, Jun 6, 2023
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    the English language united everyone and globalized the world
     
    Interaktive, Jun 10, 2023
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    This is false from the outset. Swedes/Norwegians/Danish speak English (as a second language) better than any other European nation except for the Dutch. How you manage to think the Finns are at the top is just plain wrong. In fact, even Swedish farmers speak English better than any American tourist I've met.
     
    Thingamabob, Jun 13, 2023
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    Neither Nigeria nor Kenya is a "southern African country". And, by the way, several of those that are southern African countries speak Afrikaans, German, and Portuguese.
     
    Thingamabob, Jun 13, 2023
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    No, it didn't. People have been united in trade since Adam gave Eve her first joint. A common language only makes trade simpler but it doesn't create trade or unite them. Believe it or not, traders speak more than one language and in many (if not most) circumstances new methods of communication exist. Languages such as Latin, Scandinavian, and Platdeutch have been used in international trade with no adverse side effects. Afrikaans itself is a blend of Dutch, French, Indonesian, and Bantu languages, and as has already been pointed out :below: :below: :below:
     
    Thingamabob, Jun 13, 2023
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    As well as central and western.
     
    Thingamabob, Jun 13, 2023
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  24. Thingamabob

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    What?! :alcoholic:
     
    Thingamabob, Jun 13, 2023
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    Wrong.
     
    Thingamabob, Jun 13, 2023
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