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The worst part about it, is English is hands down in the hardest languages to learn, and almost completely nonsensical.
And just communicating in it, tends to make people think and behave in a more individualist manner.
Like I know I'll get shit for saying this, I always do:
But as a species we should have made a "common tounge" long ago like Lord of the Rings.
One that's easy to learn, and has a neutral effect in nias of thinking.
Everyone is free to use their native language, and learn any other language they want.
But have the "common tounge" be something everyone, evwrywhere, learns.
If we never do that, then we're going to see what we're seeing now. English becoming a default language and pushing out others from all facets of life.
Language extinction is a real thing. If England hadn't colonized so much shit and fired natives to only use English, then it would have been forgotten about. Even the English monarchy didn't use English for most of the languages existence.
It's such a weird series of things that lead to one of the worst languages on the planet to become the default everyone tries to learn as a second language at best, and destroying other languages at worst
It has it's own challenges, sure... but english isn't even remotely close to being the hardest language to learn
The spelling is messed up, it has (like virtually every language) a bunch of exceptions to rules, but the grammar has been hugely simplified over the past 1000 years.
Not to mention that the biggest advantage to learning languages is familiarity and the fact that English is, well, everywhere makes it easier.
Sure Esperanto is easier, but for most of the world something like Japanese would be muuuuuch harder
And it still sucks...
Just look at the rules on how to pluralize something, or verb tenses.
Other languages have a few exceptions from loaner words, English is mostly exceptions because it's mostly made up not only if loaner words, but loaner words from such different languages.
We threw shit randomly for thousands of years with no rhyme or reason because it was a language solely for commoners. The British monarchy didn't even speak it for centuries...
Nobody cared what English as a language was doing.
English has way simpler verb tenses than other languages, and minimal verb conjugation. The lack of rules can be annoying, but it also makes it easier to use with minimal grasp of the language since it relys on context and general vibes so much.
Nobility and upper classes used French to communicate until 200 years ago, and that language is an absolute bear to try and grasp. The spellings are zany, conjugations and tenses are all over the place, and there is an unspoken tonal aspect that makes Parisians turn their nose up at people who even jave a solid grasp of the language.
The only perfect language is one that never gets used.
Spanish is pretty easy, but I still get confused on the gendered versions of words sometimes.
They invented Esparanto as the universal language for the world, but nobody used it.
Considering most media was coming Hollywood/the US, and then with the rise of the internet defaulting to English among the developers, it makes sense. And by this point, it's so entrenched into the global order that it's probably here to stay.
English is the common tongue.
Your comment contradicts itself in so many ways I don't even know where to start.