"English--the richest, most expressive language in the world"

[Robert Lawless]

Some anthropologists have claimed that Tamil-speakers are the most 
ethnocentric.

At 10:24 AM 3/11/2008, r.amirejibi-mullen at qmul.ac.uk wrote:
>Beliefs of language qualities are widely held in Georgia. The reason
>for this, in my opinion, comes out from the psalm written in tenth
>century by the Georgian hymnography Ioane Zosime 'Praise and
>Glorification of the Georgian Language', stating that ?our language
>has been singled out above all others for a special destiny?.   This
>is because,  ?Buried is the Georgian language as a martyr until the
>day of the Messiah?s second coming, so that God may look at every
>language through this language . . . And this language, beautified and
>blessed by the name of the Lord, humble and afflicted, awaits the day
>of the second coming of the Lord?? In 1980s this hymn spawned
>messianic tendencies in Georgia.  The messianic role of the Georgian
>language still remains widespread and sustains beliefs of superiority
>over other languages.