Peter Brown on Nostr: npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 coming late to this discussion, but yes, English is a major factor ...
npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 (npub1g0t…tvm4) coming late to this discussion, but yes, English is a major factor in our economic survival, and no it’s not because of Britain . It’s because of America.
If the US had ended up speaking Spanish or German, that would be a the lingua franca by now.
And yes, English is an easy language to speak very badly and still be understood. Other languages have a higher bar to comprehension. There is actually a convincing theory that what is now spoken is actually pidgin Welsh with few rules.
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