As the global language of the modern world, it now has lots of local variants-some recompense perhaps for the words it helps to obliterate as more and more languages become extinct.

现在，英语作为当代世界的全球语言，已经有了大量的地域性变体——或许，作为英语协助抹灭那些单词的一种回报，越来越多的语言被灭绝了。