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It would certainly suit someone like me who has not got a flair for languages, but is it suitable for their own people. Why should Italians in Italy speak English?
ReplyDeleteMy French is terrible, but I do feel that living here that I have to try and make the effort. I chose to live in France so I must try and speak French. Diane
I see what you mean, and, to some extent, I agree with you. Yet I’d say, first of all, that what is at stake here are technical and scientific studies, not the humanae litterae.
DeleteThat being said, however, there’s another perspective from which to consider this issue: simply changing to English does not mean you’re actually using good English, which in turn must make us consider the effect all the non-native speakers are having and will continue to have on English. In this sense the article’s comparison to Latin is striking—should we expect a stylistically decrepit and syntactically irregular written and academic English to become the only English in the next century?
As a result, perhaps the outcome of the whole thing might turn out to be (paradoxically) more a loss for the native English speaking than for the non-native English speakers, who in turn will certainly enjoy the advantages of their being “almost” bilingual.