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Ugh, I hate how my native language (English) is a lingua franca because it leads to the degradation of the language.
Specifically, ESL people write low quality English, which leads to EFL (English First language) people reading it. When they read it, they consciously and subconsciously change their English to be more like the ESL English. As an example, If someone reads a bunch of research papers, then they will try to imitate their style when they write their own research papers. A lot research papers were written by ESLs so the native English speaker will end up copying their simple English as part of the genre. There are more second language English speakers than native speakers, so any random dialogue will bring a native English speaker closer to ESL levels. In addition, English will end up getting influenced by these other languages, and will become increasingly more fucked up as a result. English is already fucked due to fusing with the romance languages, and it's only going to get more fucked as it fuses with all the other languages (since everyone is using it).
