I think you mean 'English is the language of the internet'. And even that is a stretch. All of the computer parts are named in English in documents. The most popular programming languages use English in their syntax. The PC terms' majority are English (or have English origin) I suppose you cannot argue with that. But I may be wrong))) Well, by your own admission, your English isn't that good, and you continue to make very minor mistakes, including your above post, so there are varying degrees of communication to be had. I still think it wouldn't go better if we used different languages. If me or you were monolingual and that one was not English, we'd never have this discussion. And my mistakes - so correct 'em! I'd be pleased that you help me to grow in linguistical sense. Um, I think you have made the point that I was alluding to...you've misunderstood the use of "universal". Universal Language ~ Международный язык And I was playing with the word UNIVERSal, I took it literally. That was a kind of humor, you know...

All of this would depend on what languages you are familiar with... a person who only speaks Cantonese would probably think: 'What? How can a language not have tones?!' Then there's English's completely screwed up orthography. We have so many loanwords (which we often haven't bothered to natrualise) that it's sometimes hard to tell which words are actually English and which ones we've nicked off of other languages. Still, there are a lot of resources for English, and it is being learnt all around the world. I just don't think it could become a 'universal' language.

I doubt Enlgish will become the official language. Even though most of the western world speaks it, I imagine it must be difficult to learn. It is not phonetic (knife, cough, through, thought, rough, etc...) and has too many exceptions to too few rules. In addition, why does a language need c, k, s, and q? Although I must admit, many people from many places speak English.