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Old 16-05-2006, 04:14   #50
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Originally Posted by dradeel
Norwegian is veeeery simple.
Norwegian has so poor semantic row that before it can be adapted to the world culture it has to be transformed by adding a couple of millions words.

This is my take on the subject:

In some 50-60 years, people of all countries will be speaking at least English. It'll be a result of influence from Europe and USA. European countries have already adopted English language as a sort of "all-around" means of communication. Since economy, culture and politics are dominated by Europe and USA, there's no other way out than a complete adaptation of English.

As for the "future" English. It has to evolve a bit more. I'm sure that it will be enriched by words from another languages. Btw, there are only 27% of English-English words left in the language nowadays.

Do native speakers need to learn more languages? Why not! It won't harm an overall cultural level of the nation but on the contrary.

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