The Brexit circus and the unpopularity of President Donald Trump are causing apprehension about the future of the Anglosphere, the cultural, intellectual and political influence of the core English-speaking nations: Britain and the US.Americans and Brits are merely facing increasing competition from within their accustomed domain rather than from without.
I learned it in the Soviet Union. I have to admit I did it because of British and US soft power: I wanted to understand rock song lyrics, watch Hollywood movies in the original, and read books that weren’t available in translation. Nor will the global political community. The European Union is a case in point: After Brexit, English could lose the status as one of the bloc’s working languages because no remaining members use it officially.
As Marko Modiano of the University of Gavle in Sweden wrote in a recent paper : “English is presenting itself as a unique bedfellow. Brits can call this bad English, but, as a non-native speaker, I won’t. People don’t own the vernacular they learned to speak as toddlers; nor can countries lay any proprietary claim on their official languages.
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