How Los Angeles made the modern

洛杉矶如何塑造现代世界

Janan Ganesh

作者:Janan Ganesh

Published June 20, 2025

发布于 2025年6月20日

It is an odd thing to say of a bilingual city with a Spanish name, but Los Angeles established English as the ruling language on Earth. The films that came out of there in the past century conquered territories that had withstood even the British empire. True, the writing was on the wall (and the parchment) for French when the Versailles treaty was drafted in Woodrow Wilson's native tongue, not just Georges Clemenceau's. But French put up a fight until the screen age. Thank Hollywood for ending the contest. Thank Disney for not having to master le subjonctif.

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