About Quote by Martin Jacques

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's…

— Norman Spinrad

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

— Edwin Newman

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since…

— Robert Burchfield

English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese…

— Noam Chomsky

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable…

— Patricia Ryan

The world doesn't revolve around English.

— HoYeon Jung

French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in…

— David Graddol

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and…

— Rowan Atkinson

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually…

— J. K. Rowling

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast…

— Henry Lawson

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that…

— Robert A. Heinlein