Thus english represents a worldly mix, more pristine [less baggage], greater menu of sounds, and a more refined sound [less gutheral].
Gutheral? C'mon! What a joke.
Firstly, I'm not conversant with many dead languages, but can see those ancient languages could have been very elaborate and possessed many fine traits. We know that older languages were far more complex and sophisticated; Hebrew is a fine example here, and we can see first hand the magnificance of the OT as a 'literary' work, its expressionisms and axioms utilised by the greatest writers, far more than any other.
Irrelevant.
English has a cadence of europe, the M/E, asia and china; english also possesses more sounds, and with its vowels not separated; interestingly, the vowels were part of the alphabets in the hebrew, as were the numerals - it was the greeks which separated the vowels and numerlas from the hebrew, when they begat the greek alphabets from this source. Now, its back again to the original format, namely the vowels are back within the alphabets - this gives a greater flexibility and pliability.
Honestly, did you write this whilst intoxicated? English has at least 13-15 vowel sounds. Count the vowels in the
alphabet and tell me how many you nd. In case you forget, it's: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z.
it was the greeks which separated the vowels and numerlas from the hebrew
What? That is nonsensical jabberwocky. Please type your posts in English.
English has a cadence of europe, the M/E, asia and china; english also possesses more sounds, and with its vowels not separated;
Again, utterly meaningless gibberish.
I noticed you quoted large portions of my message, as if you were going to address the points therein, but then went on talking about Greek and Hebrew and, yes again, writing. All completely unrelated to English. Do you want to address this one here (the major blow to your position):
quote:
It is, as the previous chapter has already indicated, entirely the case that the activities of the UK in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spread English world-wide in commercial and imperial terms, and that those of the USA in the twentieth consolidated its global role culturally, technologically, and militarily.
If you can't address that point, your position has not backing.
Jon
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"English World-Wide in the Twentieth Century" Tom McArthur in
The Oxford History of the English Language Ed Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford:2006) 379.