Car amicos!
In le revista "The Economist" il ha un articulo interessante e controversial. Tu pote leger lo (in anglese) in le adresse http://www.economist.com/node/17730434?story_id=17730434&fsrc=rss
ma io ha colligite alcun phrases interessante in le summario in infra.

 Dec 16th 2010 | from PRINT EDITION

The days of English as the world's second language may (slowly) be ending 
 ENGLISH is the most successful language in the history of the world. It is spoken on every continent, is learnt as a second language by schoolchildren and is the vehicle of science, global business and popular culture. Many think it will spread without end. But Nicholas Ostler, a scholar of the rise and fall of languages, makes a surprising prediction in his latest book: the days of English as the world's lingua-franca may be numbered.......

 

....English is expanding as a lingua-franca but not as a mother tongue. More than 1 billion people speak English worldwide but only about 330m of them as a first language, and this population is not spreading. The future of English is in the hands of countries outside the core Anglophone group. Will they always learn English?

Mr Ostler suggests that two new factors-modern nationalism and technology-will check the spread of English.............

 

 

..English will fade as a lingua-franca, Mr Ostler argues, but not because some other language will take its place. No pretender is pan-regional enough, and only Africa's linguistic situation may be sufficiently fluid to have its future choices influenced by outsiders. Rather, English will have no successor because none will be needed. Technology, Mr Ostler believes, will fill the need. This argument relies on huge advances in computer translation and speech recognition..

 

......If he is right about the technology too, future generations will come to see English as something like calligraphy or Latin: prestigious and traditional, but increasingly dispensable.



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