"versatility of the language and its effectiveness is a direct representation of the value of the users" That was exactly what I was alluding to.
A stupid language like Bahasa Indonesia, Igbo, Urdu used in a stupid environment, will produce stupid people.
The Indonesians, Pakistanis and Ibos are as brilliant as their genetic material allow them to be,
But they get the mother tongue and inherit form the environment and make them less competitive. This is bad!
In Thailand, the politicians tried to force feed Thai language as means of nationalism. The Globalization struck. They had to quickly change the tune and enforce teaching English to kids.
Similar to Malaysia -which speaks Bahasa Melayu-. Mahatir wanted to enforce Bahasa Melayu. But at the same time he wanted to develop the country.
He discovered to get a high - tech economy he needed people able to speak, read and write English. He changed the tune.
It is this way that we are going to get more clever and cleverer people. Not because English is a better language: (It was stupid until the French invaded them at the beginning of the second millennium and improved their stupid language. Which from them on sucked Latin and Greek in to it and became a decent tool)
It is the availability of stuff written and published in English that makes English a clever language. My mother tongue is Portuguese. When I read something technical in Portuguese I laugh. The conciseness of English for technical stuff is wonderful.
Czech, Swedish, Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa, Melayu, Dutch, Finish, Hungarian...
100 years and they will go to the scrap heap,
only guaranteed to survive in 500 years: English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish and India language. |
