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English Has Been This Vacuum Cleaner Of A Language, Because Of Its History Meeting Up With The Romans And Then The Danes, The Vikings And Then The French And Then The Renaissance With All The Latin And Greek And Hebrew In The Background.

Ever Since The Arrival Of Printing - Thought To Be The Invention Of The Devil Because It Would Put False Opinions Into People's Minds - People Have Been Arguing That New Technology Would Have Disastrous Consequences For Language.

A Feature Of English That Makes It Different Compared With All Other Languages Is Its Global Spread.

Academics Don't Normally Manage To Alter People's Way Of Thinking Through Their Strength Of Argument.

Anyone Interested In Language Ends Up Writing About The Sociological Issues Around It.