as occupying a special place of world leadership, and ascribes this to the status of the language. Roberts adds to this, but measures the value of English as being demonstrated in terms of wealth. In one passage, he claims that “English is today the language of wealth”. Mandarin speakers are worth a measly £448 billion, Russian-speakers £801 billion, German-speakers, £1 trillion and so on. English speakers are worth “a staggering £4.2 trillion”.
Nigel Farage visits Donald Trump shortly after his election as US president. The Brexit Party leader said during the visit that ‘our real friends in the world speak English’. File photograph: Nigel Farage/ PA Wire There is, however, one modification that the Anglospherist makes to this. Today, the best English is not that spoken in Drumcondra, despite James Joyce’s claims; rather, it is that spoken in America. That is the English of Trump, where all nuance is lost under a sclerotic and minimalist lexicon of the “big”, the “best”, the “amazing”, the “really excellent” – and nothing else. It is also a vocabulary that damages politics itself, replacing politics with violence.
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