en talk with admiration and appreciation about the cultures associated with them and what they have given to the world. And the author believes it is fairly safe to do this, because none of these languages now poses much of a threat.English however is another case. It is probably too close for us to be able to analyze and judge it as dispassionately as we may now discuss the influence of Classical Chinese on East Asia or of Classical Latin on Western Europe. We may not have the last word on its influence until centuries later.3. Why does the author say that English is “a curse for the indigenous peoples of Aus-tralia and something of a blessing for those in South Africa?”When the first Europeans arrived in Australia, there were hundreds of languages. Now many
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