"I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

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English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

— Robert A. Heinlein