Question

1- Qual das opções abaixo, corresponde a opinião de Johnson no texto? *
3 pontos
People will use a machine- translation tools to communicate;
No language will take the place of English in the next few decades;
English has a great future ahead of it.

Answer 1

1- ( X ) English has a great future ahead of it.

Johnson: Simpler and more foreign

Jul 3rd 2014, 11:53 by R.L.G. BERLIN

SEVERAL weeks ago, Johnson discussed his debate with Nicholas Ostler about the

lingua franca of the future. Johnson thinks that English has a very long run ahead of  it. Mr. Ostler sees English's time as coming to an end, to be replaced by machine- translation tools that will remove the need for people to learn to speak, read and write  a lingua franca. But we agreed that whatever the long run might look like, the next few  decades are set. No language has anything like a chance of displacing English.

Interestingly, about two-thirds of English-speakers are not first-language  speakers of English. To put it another way: English no longer belongs to  England, to superpower America, or even to the English-speaking countries

generally. Rather, English is the world's language. What happens to a language when it becomes everybody's? Shaped by the mouths of billions of non-native  speakers, what will the English of the future look like?

A look into the past can give us an idea. English is of course not the first  language learned by lots of non-natives. When languages spread, they also  change. (.. English may simplify because it is spreading. But it is spreading  because it is expressive and useful. Most of the world's languages would love to  have the problems that English has.