I think it’s possible to acknowledge that ‘everybody speaks English nowadays’ and, if in a country where one doesn’t speak the language, contribute to that development while wishing that every world city didn’t have shopping centres full of H&M and Footlocker. I guess the globalisation of American English goes hand in hand with the globalisation of capitalism, and to acknowledge that doesn’t mean you have to like it. There is much to miss about the way Europe was in the 70s…..
Maybe I’m just becoming more like Meister Anton at the end of Hebbel’s ‘Maria Magdalena:’ Ich verstehe die Welt nicht mehr!
I think it’s possible to acknowledge that ‘everybody speaks English nowadays’ and, if in a country where one doesn’t speak the language, contribute to that development while wishing that every world city didn’t have shopping centres full of H&M and Footlocker. I guess the globalisation of American English goes hand in hand with the globalisation of capitalism, and to acknowledge that doesn’t mean you have to like it. There is much to miss about the way Europe was in the 70s…..
Maybe I’m just becoming more like Meister Anton at the end of Hebbel’s ‘Maria Magdalena:’ Ich verstehe die Welt nicht mehr!