About Ostler's article.

According to me , the strongest arguments  in  his favour are :

-first is the statistic: more than 1 billon people  speak English but only 330 millions of them have English as the first language .So that the percentage  33% is not  high.

-Second, the author focus on the fact that two new factors: nationalism and technology will check the spread of English.  Britain’s ex colonies used  English because it  was a neutral language among competing native tongues and it was rejected in other ex colonies such as

Siri lanka and Tanzania. .

I don’t  agree with the writers’ point of view .I thing that English is the language a vehicle of different sciences .We are in the age  of sciences and technologies  and they all develop in English .The first universities in the world  according  to Shangai  order  are the  American and the English universities

and the all use English . All busines  are using documents written in English. 

May be it will be other languages in the future but I think that English preserve it important place in the world of Languages.