Capitolo 3
discourse; and the English-speaking peoples, a heterogeneous conglomerate
of all the nationalities, it will check among them the destinies of
humanity. Spaniard will be the language of half the populous Southerner
hemisphere. Russian it will spread on a moiety of Asia. Chinese, Malayan,
The Arab, will divide among them the parts civilized of Africa
and the east. But French, German, and the Italian wish they are meaningless and
European dialects that decrease, numerically without importance as Flemish or
Danish in our his/her own day.
And because? Not because Shakespeare wrote in English, but because the
Language English has it already found a fixed taking of all those portions of
the surface of the earth that is a lot absorbing the flood of European
populations. Germans and Scandinavians and Russian emigrate from the
thousand now to all the parts of the United States and the northwest of
Canada. In the first generation their anchor you/they can hold back them ancestral
discourse; but their children have all to learn English. In Australia and
New Zealand that the same thing is happening. In Dutch of Southern Africa had a
grip, is true; but being losing fast it. The new come they learn
The English, and although the Boerses oldest they are hammered with Boer conservatism to
their native language, young Piet and young Paul the discovery pays better them
to know and to speak the language of commerce--the language of Head City,
of Kimberley, of the future. The reason is the same one in everything. Every whenever
two languages come to have spoken to the same area one of them are sure to be
more profit in the business that the other. Every French-Canadian that desires
to make things on a great staircase is forced for speaking English. Then it is the
Haitian in Louisiana; so first it was the Dutch Knickerbockers in New
York. Once you leave that English gets in, and it strikes all competing languages
out enough of the field in a pair of generations.
As it influences Spanish favour in South America and elsewhere. The English