In general, the universal language on the Internet is English, or more exactly a vague collection of languages called English because their common origin is the national language spoken in England by the English. That national language has spread over the world, and several variants such as American English, and Australian English. A great number of people whose native language is none of the variants know English as a foreign language. They typically use a more or less simplified variant. Sometimes the English used by people as a foreign language on the Internet is almost incomprehensible to anyone else. In addition, people who use English as their native language do not know how to spell difficult words, since they basically know English as a spoken language.
Native speakers of the language are in a quite different position than others. Some people regard this as bad in itself, as contrary to the equality principle, but it is practical consequences that make it bad. Native speakers tend to use rare words and to speak too fast, unless they exercise conscious control over their language, such control is difficult and unnatural when applied to one's mother tongue. This implies that in oral communication in particular native speakers of English often have worse problems in getting themselves correctly understood than nonnative speakers. When you learn your native language in your childhood, you learn it by listening to and talking with people who have it as their native language. First they know it much better than you, later equally well. Therefor it is a very natural human behaviour to use your native language with the unconscious but strong assumption that the listener or reader knows the language to the same or even higher extent than you. In international contexts, this built-in assumption is almost always false, and this has severe consequences. We tend to regard people as stupid or ignorant if they do not understand normal language.
More than half of our languages are going to die in the next 100 years. The english lanuage was the first fogine language and has access to things you want, the language refelcts the power of Britain and America, the leeding nations.
Most people who speak English in 100 years time will be neither of British, American, nor Australian.
Pronunciation and spelling in English sometimes seem illogical or inconsistent, many words are spelled similarly though pronounced differently. The spelling of some words remained the same through the centuries, though their pronunciation changed.
English has fewer inflections than most other European languages. Many other languages have a lot of variation in the form of a word and can give words different meaning and functions.
The earliest source of the English language was a prehistoric language that modern scholars call proto-indo-European. People who lived in the region of the north probably spoke this about 5,000 years ago.
By 1485, English had lost most of its old English inflections, and it’s pronunciation and word order closely resembled those today. Beginning in the 1600’s, the language spread throughout the world as the English explored and colonized Africa, Australia, India and North America. Different dialects of the English language developed in there areas.
