According to the latest wiki page on wikipedia there are approximately 1.8 billion speakers of the english language. How many of you have traveled to a foreign country and heard the english language spoken by someone? It has become increasing popular to speak a tongue that isn't your own (unless you are American). Do you consider english to be the world language?
I am not sure if I do consider it to be a language that one day will be spoken by everyone. The only universal language right now is mathematics (one of the reasons why I got into accounting to further understand numbers as seen by someone who doesn't speak english). I find that through mathematics I can understand what someone is trying to arrive at based off of other context clues which hint at what they are trying to say even if I do not understand what it is exactly they are trying to say.
I also wanted to wish all of you good luck writing your rough drafts this week.
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I have been to other countries, but they were both as an Army soldier...so yes, the locals were trying to speak the English language, but only because the U.S. Armed Forces had been in both of the respective countries for at least a few years by the time I was there. Beyond that, I haven't been anywhere, so I would not know. Interesting concept though-that English may someday become "the universal language."
ReplyDeleteAnd I like the fact that you enjoy the language of mathematics so much. You are correct in that math IS, correctly, the universal language. I also think its pretty neat that your employer affords you the opportunity to travel around the world representing your company. That's pretty awesome.