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English has achieved some sort of global status. Whenever we turn on the news to find out whats happening in East Asia, or the Balkans, or Africa, or South America, or anywhere else, local people are being interviewed and telling us about it in English. When Pope John Paul II goes on one of his pilgrimages and he does not know the language of the country he is visiting he harangues in English, when we see on television Polish politicians interviewed by foreign reporters ( if they are not Russian reporters) they also try to talk in English. Wherever we travel, we see English signs and advertisements, if we enter a restaurant or hotel in a foreign city, they staff will understand English, and there will be an English menu. So how does a language achieve a global status? And first of all what is an international language?
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