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If i could write European history i would unite Europe under Polish language [67]
leave the Serbs out of it.
If they would not have been in Byzantine empire as soldiers and later being part of the army that stopped the Turks from invading Vienna, you would not write a sh1t, wherever the frakk you live...
English is a living example of a language that includes parts of all European languages
BS. The 'popularity/domination' is based on those countries which are mainly using it and/or where it is motherlanguage. Another point is, that we live still in a world(not only regarding language) dominated by Anglo, 'cause of their drive to dominate in some way and as a result f.e. in business or other fields the main language is English.
Try to convnce a Chinese or Russian in business meeting to speak English. Minimal chance...
As from my perspective it is simple to learn and that's it. Wouldn't mind if instead it would be Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Suaheli... etc. ;)