Bevölkerungsschicht

16:15 Apr 18, 2008 

I would say that this has quite a lot to do with the ease basic English can be learned and, of course, thanks to Hollywood. In any case, "Bevölkerungsschicht" is plain wrong.

13:43 Apr 18, 2008 

That's circular logic then. The question already begins with the premise that English is the "world language" (which implies, accurately, that it's spoken as a second language throughout the world by more people than any other second language); the only question is why this is so. So the person answering the question at that site is pretty much saying, "It's the world language because it's the world language."

11:14 Apr 18, 2008 

Some would even go so far as to suggest that English is spoken in USA, but... (only kidding!). ;-)

11:12 Apr 18, 2008 

Not necessarily factually incorrect. Chinese may have the largest number of native speakers, but English has far more speakers of English as a second (sometimes even official) language, e.g. hundreds of millions in India.

00:41 Apr 18, 2008 

Hier behauptet das auch einer mit der "Bevölkerungsschicht". http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/wieso-ist-englisch-die-weltsp...
Dazu fällt mir nur das Buch "Generation doof" ein.

22:16 Apr 17, 2008 

I think Craig is right, the answerer to this question isn't very smart.

The question really was (in German) "Why is English the 'world language'"?

This person's answer is factually incorrect (hello, heard of Chinese?) :-), but now I at least get it linguistically.

Thank you.