Oxford Dictionary

We may be speaking Chinese by default

Although a certain level of 'multilinguicity' can assist comprehension, especially where appreciation of the arts is concerned, most people love their own language best for a million different reasons. I would suggest that the Oxford dictionary is an extremely important document, and one that is referred to more often than almost any other. Rightly or wrongly, western culture has a fairly proactive global policy and the English language is one of its more seductive tools. We may very well be speaking Chinese by default in 300 years, but even then the Oxford dictionary will only have grown in value.

Inky, New Zealand - 23 June 2004