Can You Say It in English?

The development of WE has triggered a lot of questions with it. The thought of linguistic genocide haunts the minority languages. As language represents culture, the vanishing of a language usually means the vanishing of its culture. It is interesting to see that even in the "modern" world we live in today that there are languages dying because they are not used. There are political, economical, and even social reasons behind abandoning those languages. It is interesting to learn about what other languages vanished, but this difficult due to the fact that some languages were oral one and they have no written record.

In a world were English speakers in IC, OC, and EC countries making about two thirds of its population, we see the need to reach middle-ground by introducing other varieties, which in some OC and EC countries speakers are more than all IC countries' speakers combined. There are also psychological aspects behind this, such as getting rid of "linguistic arrogance", which is caused by one's thinking that one's language is superior.