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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 1 of 6 02 November 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am attaching a link to an interview of the linguist Nicholas Ostler in The Guardian relating to his most recent book, The Last Lingua Franca, which may be of interest to some of you.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3 of 6 03 November 2010 at 2:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, let's hope he's right. I plan to still be around in 2050 and English losing its lingua franca status would be great news for polyglots.
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 4 of 6 03 November 2010 at 5:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone read his book Empires of the Word? Sounds like quite an interesting read.
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| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5381 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 5 of 6 03 November 2010 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm reading Empires of the Word right now - extremely interesting and I'm quite enjoying it! I hadn't realized he had written another book.
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6295 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 6 of 6 04 November 2010 at 3:18am | IP Logged | ||
If you like reading this forum, I strongly suspect that you will like Empires of the Word. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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