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What’s the real reason why most people in the USA only speak/knows English and not another language?
Can members talk in their preferred languages?
Richard Millington • Build Your Community: Turn your connections into a powerful online community
The other side of understanding language shift is to ask why the identities associated with Indo–European languages were emulated and admired. It cannot have been because of some essential quality or inner potential in Indo–European languages or people. Usually language shift flows in the direction of paramount prestige and power. Paramount status
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
The next group to go in for English was the scientists. Modern science has always been international, and scientists were accustomed to having to learn one another’s languages to read the latest research. In the twentieth century, they seriously considered adopting invented languages to speed their work. They were particularly interested in a postw
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
commercial printers of the 1500s wanted everyone to speak the same language so they could maximize sales for their goods.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Though agencies like the Voice of America and the Peace Corps promoted English, that wasn’t their main mission. It wasn’t until 1965 that the U.S. government even set the promulgation of English as a foreign policy objective.