Why English language is so popular ?

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You mean like "-chen" or "-l" in German?

What I would want to add to English is a distinction between "you" singular and plural (hoping that it doesn't turn into the sociological mess of Sie vs. du or vous vs. tu); Southerners recognize this and have "y'all" (singular) and "all y'all" (plural). New Yorkers will sometimes distinguish second person plural with "youse guys."

Y'all, is already plural ("you all"), so "all y'all" is outright ridiculous and makes the person sound like a half-wit.

Likewise, "you guys" is already plural. "Youse guys" is simply a way to communicate that you are a meat-head.
 
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I have looked in the Oxford/Cambridge dictionary so many times
that I can't be bothered anymore.
I do understand scouse, geordie, cornish, brummie, scottish, welsh, celtic, and many other british accents.
After all britain was ving territory for a good while.
York and Newcastle is nearly still danish.
So I speak english as I please.
Do you understand ?
 
Vikings where huge around Europe and all the way down and around the Volga, they stabilized trade and governments before the dark ages... but they adopted so easily the natives customs they all became watered down versions eg melted away.
 
Vikings where huge around Europe and all the way down and around the Volga, they stabilized trade and governments before the dark ages... but they adopted so easily the natives customs they all became watered down versions eg melted away.

The Vikings also founded the first non-native settlement in North America.

A few hundred years before the Portuguese came there for fishing.
 
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