English is still the world language
Experts say English still world’s language from The Brunei Times-English will remain the global language in the foreseeable future, even with the fast paced changes brought about from the forces of globalisation, experts said.
Trends in technology helps to further spread English as the global language, thus most people tend to agree that English will continue to be the global language, said Dr David Prescott, Associate Professor of the English language & Applied Linguistics Department at Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
“Other languages do not pose a threat to English as the global language because a significant amount of world business and technology activities is conducted in English,” he told The Brunei Times.
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Although English is not does not have the largest number of native speakers it is, for better or worse, the most important language in the world. It’s grammatical structure, absent of cases and gender and full of contractions, and has evolved because of one thousand years of adaptation to being used globally. I do not think it will always be the most important. Perhaps the world will evolve back into one world language.
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