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In Real life and on the internet
Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing.
There are now thought to be some 4.5 billion web pages worldwide. And with half the population of China now on line, many of them are written in Chinese.
Still, some linguists predict that within 10 years English will dominate the internet - but in forms very different to what we accept and recognise as English today.
"The prevalence of English movies in regions where there is not much technology other than cell phones and DVDs makes English an aspirational language. People think it's the language of the digital age."
So English is always compared to latin when it comes to what language has had the wider impact, I think now English has become the undisputed dominant language in human history by transcending the real world to hit cyber space.
Do you think anything could challenge English dominance?