Abstract of a New Method to Analyze the English Language and Literature: English, the Youngest, Most Elastic, and Grammatically the Simplest Language; ... Proved; Its Influence and Importan - Softcover

Weisse, John Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282997334 ISBN 13: 9780282997335

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Abstract of a New Method to Analyze the English Language and Literature: English, the Youngest, Most Elastic, and Grammatically the Simplest Language; Its Origin and Progress Philologically, Historically, and Numerically Proved; Its Influence and Importance as a Means of Civilization; Its Extent and Destiny

As to the destiny of the English language, the myriads who speak it in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceanica are fully aware of its capacity to become the universal lin guistic medium, which may be realized by looking at the map of North America, where the English idiom has, within twenty-five years, spread from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific and Behring's straits, and displaced the Spanish, Indian, and Russian dialects. Cuba, St. Domingo Mexico, Central America, the Sandwich and Navigators Islands are feeling its influence and desire its sway; even exclusive China and Japan seem to lean more and more towards America and the English language across the Pacific. Thus the tide of empire is not only westward, but eastward; it meets and mingles in America.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0282997334
• ISBN 13: 9780282997335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24