ответ: the great jakob grimm, the founder of comparative philology, hazarded the guess more than a century ago that english would one day become the chief language of the world, and perhaps crowd out several of the principal idioms altogether. “in wealth, wisdom and strict economy,” he said, “none of the other living languages can vie with it.” at that time the guess was bold, for english was still in fifth place, with not only french and german ahead of it, but also spanish and russian. in 1801, according to michael george mulhall, the relative standing of the five, in the number of persons using them, was as second. and he was true. english language is using now in all structures as political, economical, technology, science, art and etc.
this enormous increase in the american population, beginning with the great immigrations of the 30’s and 40’s, quickly lifted english to fourth place among the languages, and then to third, to second and to first. when it took the lead the attention of philologists was actively directed to the matter, and in 1868 one of them, a german named brackebusch, first seriously raised the question whether english was destined to obliterate certain of the older tongues. brackebusch decided against it on various philological grounds, none of them particularly sound. he was an own figure, whos dissertation shows, were rather against him.
the next estimates, for the year 1900, he take from jespersen. the statisticians responsible for them he did not know.
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Famous German rock band "Rammstein" will be the main star of the festival "Old plow" - one of the most popular musical events of the summer season in France. As reported today, the organizers of the festival, the German team will perform at the opening ceremony on July 18. According to them, especially for high-profile guests, who were the first to perform at a festival in Brittany, will be expanded to the main stage of the festival. This will be done to ensure that German musicians, known for its vibrant show with fireworks, could accommodate all the necessary equipment to provide. "For the first time in the history of one performer will take the stage all night".