“How would you feel if you were made to speak German?”. According to Tom Law, the English have been stepping on the Welsh language as a boot steps on an ant. And it only took them 150 years to succeed on making the majority of Wales English speakers. Because of the glory days of the British Empire, an Englishspeaking person today will never have to worry about losing their language. “English is a dominant language
– the third most common in the world”. As an English-speaking individual, hearing others bleat on about their language disappearing, it doesn’t mean anything to you. Because you cannot possibly understand. “There are more important things to worry about in life than some bloke in Aberystwyth demanding a bilingual sign on his local fish and chip shop”. The only way an English-speaking person can understand that struggle, is if the situation was reversed. “Let’s say those loony UKIP types were right – Brussels really did want to absorb
Britain into some creepy all-powerful Euro state”. And as it happens, that is what they did. From that moment on, German became the common language replacing English. The German language sank its roots in the legal, government and business worlds. So as a result, more English-speaking people turned to German as a way to make their life much easier. Everybody wanted to learn German, starting with the middle-class. The
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