The other problem with that idea is that Latin DOES still dominate. there are more European languages that have Latin as their foundation than any other tradition. We still use latin modifiers and terms. And the single largest Christian organization still uses Latin as an official language. It's often used in science. THis 1500 years after the nation who made the language ceased to exist. Sorry, that's pretty darn influential. For hundreds of years it WAS what you spoke. I never said American English would be permanently enshrined, but I think it will come to dominate over other forms of the language.
Ok then... french, spanish, italian. English, whilst it does draw a considerable amount from latin, it is essentially a german language.
The fact that christianity still uses latin as their official language proves nothing - just that they've been around for a while. Tell me, what are the jewish, or arabic holy books written in? The moslem holy books? Last I heard, certainly the moslem holy books were written before christianity was even concieved of, and Im pretty sure that they were written in a language which is still being used today. By the largest religion in the world. It may have been modified (I'm not sure) but so has latin - a lot of the pronunciations etc. today are suss, its how they *think* it happened.
You've also ignored all the other examples I pointed out. Heck, if nothing else, ignore all of them and just look at two examples: the asians, and the moslems.
Could I *also* point out that whilst the Americans 'have political supremacy' that if you look at history, most likely it won't last long?
What's really funny about it is that I hear many many more australians speak on par with this intellectual level than Americans.
Oh, please, I'm curious? Incidentally, I never said that Australians were any different from the Americans in terms of differing in accents etc. from English, in fact I didn't mention Australia at all. So taking cheap shots doesn't accomplish a heap, sorry.
Brownie points to mercury_yume incidentally.
And Gopher - next weekend I'll *show* you an armoury