Omnidirectionally the course of empire takes its way

[Monte Davis]

... as Bishop Berkeley almost noted in his M&D-esque "Verses on the
Prospect of Planting Art and Learning in America." Check out the first
network map at

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/chinese-whisperers-mapping-pathways-of-knowledge-and-rumor

Larger version at

http://news.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/sn-languageH_2.jpg

Now, of course, I want a more detailed map that breaks out the direction of
translation. A-and one on movies and TV, with and without subtitles. My
esteem for our own Max Nemtsov and Mike Jing continues to grow.

Ten years ago I was taking a course in English as a second language in
Temple's M.Ed program. Along the way I learned more about the English First
Foundation and other organizations that are in a perpetual lather about All
Those Immigrants Who Want Bilingual Accommodation And Will Bury Our Culture
in Icky Foreignness Because They're Too Lazy to Learn the Way My
Great-Grandparents Did.

It's a classic moral panic, impervious to abundant evidence that (1)
immigrants to the US today learn English faster than their predecessors,
and (2) the poor beleaguered English language -- Mandarin and Hindi
notwithstanding -- continues its 200-year roll as, global, uhh, lingua
franca.

Civis romanus sum and SPQR too, beyotches!
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