tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post2435943962758326418..comments2024-01-19T21:33:09.716+00:00Comments on E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK: Will English Be A Dead Language?EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-82782466882861199712010-11-21T04:22:12.682+00:002010-11-21T04:22:12.682+00:00I completely agree with Poetry Pleases on this. In...I completely agree with Poetry Pleases on this. In addition, Todd, have you tried to learn any Chinese? It is not necessarily practical for other cultures (perhaps even for Chinese and Chinese-speakers progeny in the future) to learn Chinese. Like rice farmer, it is the result of years and years of painful practice, corporal punishment, rote memorization...add to this the fact that the Chinese language (which I'd say greatly influences the culture of its speakers) effects a kind of indirectness which is completely impractical in a modern, fast-paced life. One more reason why Chinese speakers want their children to learn English (and not all of them want their children to move to the West or even to study there. I teach English in Taiwan, so I have some familiarity with this subject. <br />Anyway, newspapers are always proclaiming the demise of everything, be it literature, film, the world, English, or earlobe hair.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15907060405795620941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-62624752025157649902010-11-11T16:24:17.326+00:002010-11-11T16:24:17.326+00:00As an English-speaker, the thought of belonging to...As an English-speaker, the thought of belonging to a world-dominating Anglophone culture has always bothered me. Don't local and national characters get washed away, as we have seen just now with the rise of an American-style Halloween in Britain and the decline of November 5th? I would like to see the imperialistic English language taken down a peg or two.Dennis Tomlinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15392008080036061354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-43467619411641609802010-11-11T15:33:26.941+00:002010-11-11T15:33:26.941+00:00Well, whatever else is dead in 1000 years, we sure...Well, whatever else is dead in 1000 years, we surely will be!Sheenagh Pughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02735299981866333316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-44490734912718508812010-11-11T13:30:23.326+00:002010-11-11T13:30:23.326+00:00Dear Todd
Having taught English for over twenty y...Dear Todd<br /><br />Having taught English for over twenty years I know that reports of its forthcoming demise are somewhat exaggerated. People think that English has become the world language purely as a result of colonialism. This is only partly true. Structuarally, English has an astonishing intrinsic power, economy and flexibility. The main problem that foreign learners face is the spelling. Compare it with French which has around half a million nouns where you have to guess the gender because there are no fixed rules. As for Chinese; hardly anyone outside China speaks it and I can't see that changing any time soon.<br /><br />Best wishes from SimonPoetry Pleases!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16686247991180317838noreply@blogger.com