Apart from ocean dwelling dolphins and whales, human landlubbers are suspected to be the only other earthly life form that uses a system of communication called language. There are over 7000 languages spoken by humans on this planet, which largely reduces the possibility to use that system of communication to communicate. Fortunately many people in non-English speaking countries have (to a certain degree) knowledge of English as a second language (or L2), which makes it possible for those of different speech to discuss, disagree and even (verbally) fight in that commonly used second language.
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| English as native and second language |
The proliferation of the English language is the result of British imperialism. Colonial powers forced the people in conquered areas to speak English, so that the colonists did not have to learn an other language and that they - as native speakers - would always have the advantage of a better command of the language, which was kind of useful in oppressing and law making that often contained obscure articles that enabled the Brits to 'legally' plunder its foreign properties, while providing the officially appointed plunderers immunity so that they could continue to carry out criminal assignments without being dragged into court for ruthlessly violating basic human rights.
The limitless exploitation of overseas properties was possible only because of the possibilities that the English language offered imperialist forces. Its accuracy, ampleness and subtlety allowed articles of deceit to sound and appear eloquent, thus compounding their aura of authority. These properties inbuilt in the English language could even give the oppressed the impression that they were being oppressed to a lesser extent, while in fact the opposite was the case. In this way tyrannical rule seemed far less ungodly as it actually was. It reflects the smartly cunning way in which the language was constructed. That is no wonder, because the bloke that built English was Francis Bacon, who was inspired by the French band of poets - Le Pléiade - that was formed to improve the French language (in which they succeeded wondrously).
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| Bacon = Shakespeare |
Bacon, who was a Freemason and Rosecurian, assembled writers, poets, scientists and legislators in the order Knights of the Helmet, that set out to hugely improve the English language, because he realised that a nation that intended to become the sole world power needed to have a rich and structured language. There is ample evidence that Bacon's nom de plume was Shakespeare. Besides the famous plays Bacon is attributed to have written approximately 2000 books. He didn't of course, the chaps under his direction in the Knights of the Helmet did. So besides building the language and promoting it through Shakespeare's plays, Bacon had many works written to give the language a solid foundation on which the legislative writings of the global British empire was based.
After the reign of the Brits seemingly had come to an end, it still smolders underneath the soil, impossible to extinguish, intending to blaze again at some point in the future. The main tool for this plan to come to fruition is of course its means of communication that is intertwined in its structure that has countless spurs into areas that require deep conveyance to serve properly. Etymology and other linguistic properties provide characteristics that rulers and ruled understand in dissimilar ways, in order to maintain the hierarchy necessary to govern an empire. To which diversity and independence are mortal enemies. It is remarkable that the English language has an abundant subset in its vocabulary to describe properties of these cherished values as well, which probably is an inevitable feat of the linguistic urge to be able to describe all there is or could have been - 'Tragedies and Comedies are of one Alphabet.' (Francis Bacon).
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