Will English continue to be the lingua franca of Internet? SANJAY NANNAPARAJU.?

Question

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Answer 1

Probably. English is a lazy language in that there are very few verb conjugations and it is not necessary to worry about gender and number agreement between nouns and their modifiers. I am a foreign language major and I love the romance languages. I like how the verb alone tells you whom or what is doing the action without seeing the rest of the sentence. But this very thing makes it a larger undertaking for certain tasks. So since English is easy on the afore mentioned things, and is adaptable because of the way foreign words can be easily assimilated into the vocabulary, I don't see the lingua franca of the Internet changing.

Answer 2

I think it will, for the reasons given by s_g. Furthermore, although English has now been overtaken by Spanish as the No. 1 "1st language" spoken thoughout the world (apart from Chinese), Spanish is very much concentrated in South America apart from Spain, so its use is not as universal as that of English. Chinese is really in the same chategory.

A further advantage of English on the internet is the distinct lack of diacritical marks. Look at anything in Hungarian and nearly every word seems to have a written accent and some have several on one word (e.g. Thursday = csütörtök), French and Spanish have their fair share and this leads to confusion if the accents aren't in place.