English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language — this alone made it inevitable that Englis… - Robert A. Heinlein

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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language — this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible — despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.