Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 0 views
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Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.