&gt; English won<p>English did not won.<p>It might be widely spoken in the 21st century, but so were Greek, Egyptian, Latin, French, Portuguese and Spanish once upon a time.<p>I might be writing this in English now, but saying it won implies no change in common language will ever happen again.<p>Given the history of mankind and some of the countries I had the pleasure to visit on my life so far, I doubt it.<p>Specially since most of the people I know, do happen to speak three foreign languages on average.