I had a phone stalker once on my work cell phone. A lady texted me to stop effing her husband and it escalated to harassing voice mails. No amount of me telling her I was happily married and had no idea who or what she was talking about made a difference. Finally had to change phone numbers.

While I probably wouldn't do this in reality, my first thought was to respond "but no one (insert nasty here) like he does".

Now i feel sad. I've never had a stalker. Unless you count Kevy of course.

I can stalk you for a bit, if you want. I've got some time available today. What's your number?

I'm more of a stocker

Coffee stirrers make terrible chopsticks. Especially when the object being chopstuck is a wet bit of sugar packet floating/sinking in a cup of coffee.

Hmm, I assume your stats are based on how many people speak each language. His wording was "will be more extensively spoken than any other", which to my mind means spoken in more places around the world. Isn't English still the closest the world has to an international language?

If that is the meaning he meant, it was true in 1900 sine the British empire was near it's peak so isn't much of a prediction.

Buy if you want I'll give him half a point in an otherwise ridiculously wrong prediction on what would happen to the language in a hundred years.

English is a stupid language. Too many exceptions to the rules. I think we should all speak Serbian instead. It's based on phonomic principals, and is so simple to spell that spelling isn't even taught in school!