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A language becomes a global language because of the power of the people who speak it. It's
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nothing to do with the structure of the language. There's nothing about English grammar or vocabulary
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or pronunciation or spelling that makes English an appealing language at a global level. In fact,
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if you think about it, English spelling would put most people off, you'd think. So it's nothing to
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do with the structure of language. No, it's all to do with power. But power means different
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things at different times. English first became international because of political power,
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military power, the power of the British Empire, really. But it isn't just political that takes
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a language around the world. There have got to be other factors too. A century later,
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we're talking about the 16th, 17th century there, we had the power of science, of technology,
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the Industrial Revolution. English is the language of science. That started then as
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something like two-thirds of the people who invented all the things that make modern society
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what it is, did so through the medium of the English language. And then in the 19th century,
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economic power, money talks always, and the language it was talking in the 19th century was
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English, because America and Britain between them had the money markets of the world sewn up for
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the most part. And then in the 20th century, we have cultural power, with English being the language
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of the vast majority of the inventions that make modern society what it is. So it's English
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turning up in the, as it were, almost the right place at the right time during these
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last 400 years or so that has produced the enormous global status that it currently has.
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- Subido por:
- Andrea S.
- Licencia:
- Dominio público
- Visualizaciones:
- 11
- Fecha:
- 15 de octubre de 2020 - 12:03
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- EOI E.O.I. DE ALCORCON
- Duración:
- 02′ 33″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
- Resolución:
- 1280x720 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 20.49 MBytes
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