martes, 15 de enero de 2013

Taking Over The World

They say patience is a virtue, and its one that I don't acquire or at least I didn't. Waiting around 30 minutes for the video to load was kind of boring. All though I can't say that the other minutes watching the video were fun, I did learn things about the english language I didn't know.


"For English their are no borders" (1:06). These are wise words, not only because English is one of the most influential languages, but also because its the native languages of two of the superpowers of the world: the US, and the UK. We live in a world, that how said in the video is an "English-speaking-world." That is not just his opinion, but the reality of how we function and how we communicate. Did you know that English is the only language spoken by airlines in 157 countries? Although everyone that has been in a plane by Avianca or Alitalia knows that the English spoken has a weird accent to say the least, they still speak it. Why? Because for some reason people believe that everyone knows the language, which in many cases is true.



Did you know 80% of the world's computer data is in English? I didn't think so. This is not the only thing done in this language, most of the world's TV is in English. All our time we are in things like: Facebook, Twitter, Google, even Blogger. I am right now writing in English, in an English web page, all though my native language is Spanish. This is the society we live in , everyone always wants to be part of everything, never being left out, and through English they achieve this desire. I do like English, for those who might take it personally when I tell you that I don't believe that is a positive thing for a language to take over the whole world, as English is trying (and achieving) to do. For example in some parts of Scotland, their first language is Gaelic, which I think is amusing for it being part of the United Kingdom. All though the dominance of the language helps everyone around the globe to communicate, which can lead to so many good things, it is also vanishing culture.

The Story of English. Dir. Robert MacNeil, Robert McCrum, and William Cran. BBC, 1986. 27 Aug. 2009. Web. 13 Jan. 2013

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