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  • English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese will be. But I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

    Europe   Doubt   Chinese  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

    Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter
  • Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.

    Country   Hate   Europe  
    Source: davidbenson.webs.com
  • As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

    Matter   Facts   Language  
    Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter
  • One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia" - the way it brings together so many different registers of language. He doesn't mean national languages, but rather the sublanguages we all navigate between every day: high language, low language, everything. I think there's something really powerful about the idea of the novel as a space that can bring all these languages together - not just aggregate them, like the Internet is so good at doing, but bring them into a dialogue.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

    Funny   Humorous   Israel  
    George Mikes (1969). “The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow”
  • Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

    "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2006.
  • These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

    Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.117, Univ of California Press
  • National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

    Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.118, Univ of California Press
  • The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

    "English as a Global Language" David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, (p. 124), 2003.
  • I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

    Europe   Doubt   Facts  
    "The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview". Interview with Jeff Jetton and Dakota Fine, chomsky.info. March 9, 2011.
  • Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

    Funny   Baseball   Strong  
    George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”
  • A national language is a band of national union.

    Band   Unions   Language  
    Noah Webster (1951). “Dissertations on the English Language”
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