In the near future, 1.5 billion people – a quarter of the world´s population – will speak English. For 1.1 billion, it will be a second or third language. English is rapidly becoming a language for business, science and popular culture. Three quarters of the world´s mail and 80% of the electronic mail on the Internet use English.

There aren´t linguistic reasons for this global dominance of English. The grammar is difficult, the pronunciation eccentric, and the spelling peculiar. Maybe the reason is the flexibility of the English language which incorporates words from more than 150 different languages.

As English spreads across Australia, Asia and Africa, it will invariably be transformed – even subverted. Perhaps English will fragment into different languages as Latin fragmented into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and other languages 1,500 years ago.

^{(Adapted from an article by James Geary, Time, July 7, 1997, p. 35.)}

Segundo o texto, a língua inglesa:

In the near future, 1.5 billion people – a quarter of the world´s population – will speak English. For 1.1 billion, it will be a second or third language. English is rapidly becoming a language for business, science and popular culture. Three quarters of the world´s mail and 80% of the electronic mail on the Internet use English.

There aren´t linguistic reasons for this global dominance of English. The grammar is difficult, the pronunciation eccentric, and the spelling peculiar. Maybe the reason is the flexibility of the English language which incorporates words from more than 150 different languages.

As English spreads across Australia, Asia and Africa, it will invariably be transformed – even subverted. Perhaps English will fragment into different languages as Latin fragmented into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and other languages 1,500 years ago.

^{(Adapted from an article by James Geary, Time, July 7, 1997, p. 35.)}

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I. ^{Há uma grande influência de outras línguas no inglês.}

^{II. Tal como o latim, o inglês irá desaparecer.}

^{III. À semelhança do latim, o inglês poderá ser fragmentado em diversas outras línguas.}

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About two-thirds of U.S. high school students work, with half putting in an average of 20 hours a week or more. Although few need to help support their families, American teenagers outwork others around the world. In boom nations such as Germany and Japan, teenage employment is rare and seldom involves more than five hours a week.

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breath, your hair and your clothes will stop smelling of stale tobacco.

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Literature is the only place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way. The reason for ensuring that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and godmen need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we need to remember it is necessary.

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Literature is the only place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way. The reason for ensuring that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and godmen need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we need to remember it is necessary.

According to the text:

Literature is the only place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way. The reason for ensuring that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and godmen need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we need to remember it is necessary.

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