Despite the well-known schoolboy doggerel (Latin is a language / As dead as dead can be. / First it killed the Romans / And now it's killing me!), there has always been a live community of Latin speakers, via the church. At no point was there a 'with the death of' at which the last speaker passed away.
As for English, it's jolly nice if one happens to have the world's lingua franca as one's native tongue, but surely we could wish for something better than English as the world's language? If nothing else the orthography could be both simpler and clearer.
As for English, it's jolly nice if one happens to have the world's lingua franca as one's native tongue, but surely we could wish for something better than English as the world's language? If nothing else the orthography could be both simpler and clearer.