ENGLISH Language.. PREDOMINANT. !!. How.?. Why.?

[nirosha sen]

Good to see everyone having so much fun analysing the language. Yes, you are all right. This language though complex in both grammar and pronunciation, is still by the far the easiest. But I believe it's only because of our own familiarity with the colonial masters. It wasn't the other Europeans who stayed long enough to rule over so many parts of Asia and Africa, the way the Brits. did in the past few centuries. But surprisingly as far as English was concerned, it was in India where the experiment actually started, when the Brit. admin. decided that the natives should learn the English language!

It was the likes of an administrator called Macauley who was one of the few colonialists who had spearheaded the Anglicist language policy, where they sought to develop and control India through English. Independence may have been the furthest thought from their minds, but to create the kind of dependancy by the natives was a well thought out strategy.