Torsten:
>When was the last time you identified with your foreign counterpart?
That was my whole point, Torsten. As long as you think something as
"foreign", you won't be able to identify with it.
Alex clearly, in the way he speaks of English, thinks that English is
"foreign"
to him. As a result, he gets really testy about the idea of English taking
over the world. However, while I'm not saying that we will all speak
English one day (it could be another language altogether like Mandarin),
the effects of English are undeniable. Perhaps Alex' child could become
a computer programmer, let's say. Ever noticed that all the major
programming languages like Visual Basic, Java, C/C++/C#, etc are all
in "English"? They always use English words as commands and so English
has become the language of the technological age. Since the internet
seems to be here to stay... it seems that English is going to continue to
have a stronger and stronger influence on other languages unless a bomb
hits and we have to start from scratch.
= gLeN
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