As you said. All the reasons you said above. Mean no other language is practical for a today government to require.
Any Lang has issues and it’s not fixing an existing problem.
But if our shitty past did not exist. We would have several different nations all choosing their own Lang. And still no real integration. Sorta why English was winning in the first place.
Honestly if any other Lang speaking subgroup of the UK had been the best at being shitty. We would still have a history of a single lang forcing itself on others. No historical UK tribe was pacifists. And muct of what you think of as English now was Normondy/french in origin replacing Saxon English.
As you said. All the reasons you said above. Mean no other language is practical for a today government to require.
Any Lang has issues and it’s not fixing an existing problem.
But if our shitty past did not exist. We would have several different nations all choosing their own Lang. And still no real integration. Sorta why English was winning in the first place.
Honestly if any other Lang speaking subgroup of the UK had been the best at being shitty. We would still have a history of a single lang forcing itself on others. No historical UK tribe was pacifists. And muct of what you think of as English now was Normondy/french in origin replacing Saxon English.