26,840
edits
Language: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 13: | Line 13: | ||
<span>[https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-and-why-did-english-supplant-french-as-the-world-s-lingua-franca How And Why Did English Supplant French As The World’s Lingua Franca?]</span> | <span>[https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-and-why-did-english-supplant-french-as-the-world-s-lingua-franca How And Why Did English Supplant French As The World’s Lingua Franca?]</span> | ||
French might have been spoken in the courts of Europe all the way to Russia — it is the language of the nobility, including Catherine II, who used it in correspondence and daily communication — but English was the language of money, and money talks louder than philosophy. The Victorian City of London was the financial center of the world and most of its business was directed outwards and overseas, not domestically. | During the Renaissance, standard Italian was spoken as a language of culture in the main royal courts of Europe, and among intellectuals.... | ||
By the 18th century, classical French usurped Latin in international treaties, starting with the Treaty of Rasstatt (1714), which marked the end of the War of Succession in Spain. This was the beginning of French as a langue diplomatique. | |||
French might have been spoken in the courts of Europe all the way to Russia — it is the language of the nobility, including Catherine II, who used it in correspondence and daily communication — but English was the language of money, and money talks louder than philosophy. The Victorian City of London was the financial center of the world and most of its business was directed outwards and overseas, not domestically. | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet] | [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/27/english-language-global-dominance Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet] | ||
| Line 33: | Line 35: | ||
<br />• English — British Empire - 1800 AD - 1945 AD | <br />• English — British Empire - 1800 AD - 1945 AD | ||
<br /> — American Globalism - 1945 AD - present | <br /> — American Globalism - 1945 AD - present | ||
<br /> | <br /> | ||