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When will English stop being the unofficial world language? (1 Viewer)

What language will replace English as the unofficial world language?

  • Spanish

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • Chinese

    Votes: 7 20.6%
  • Russian

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other current language

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • A new language yet unknown

    Votes: 7 20.6%
  • English will not be replaced as the unofficial world language.

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • Total voters
    34

Gary Coal Man

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Poll questions speak for themselves.  Please feel free to state why you voted the way you did.

 
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When  it comes to language and currency, it's not about which country has more power but rather which country offers the most security in times of distress. 

 In the next couple decades china will most certainly emerge as the most powerful economic force on the planet, yet billions and billions of Chinese dollars are flooding the US, purchasing assets here because of perceived stability. 

 Regarding language, ironically enough the saving grace for the English language may be that Americans have been so slow to learn foreign languages.  Business leaders and government leaders from virtually every country on this planet have learned English but our global leaders stateside have no such mastery of a single common foreign language. 

 
Why would it change?
Possibly due to changing world influence where Anglophone nations subside in influence while other nations rise in influence.  Or possibly due to changing demographics where Anglophone people dwindle in world percentage while speakers of another language boom in global percentage.

 
It will be replaced by technology.  Instantaneous two-way interpretation via technology will replace single language dominance with a multi-lingual, or at least a language agnostic world.

 

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