As part of its Evolving English exhibition, the British Library held a seminar on 6th December 2010 to discuss the future of the English language. The guest speakers were Robert McCrum and Nicholas Ostler.
The seminar lasted 90 minutes and can be summarised as follows: Robert McCrum plugged his new book ‘Globish; How the English Language became the World’s Language’ and Nicholas Ostler plugged his book ‘The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel’.
On 13th December, Jonathon Green