How to know you’ve truly angered a British person: 1. They beg for your pardon 2. They write you a strongly worded letter/email 3. They mutter “charming” 4. They say “you’re welcome” - which you can only just hear because they’ve waited for you to walk away a bit 5. They tut

#langtwt Is English a ‘killer’ language? Is our fixation with internationalising English killing other languages? (A killer language is a language that, because of its dominance, causes the extinction of other smaller languages.) Kind of seems like it… What do you think?