Reply To: Are that any well known rabbis that assert that English is a holy language

ZD,
I know someone who has a daughter who tutors disadvantaged kids in English. One kid asked why he should learn English. By he time he grows up everybody will be speaking Chinese. However, English does have many holes.
BTW, in Hungary goyish languages were banned in shul in response to the Neolog (Reform) who were “more Hungarian than the Hungarians”. However, Pressburgers did know German as they earned external diplomas in return for draft exemptions as theological students. The story goes that when Koppel Weiss became Chief Rabbi he endeared himself (and the Orthodox in general) to Franz Josef by speaking to him in German, thus relieving him of the obligation to break his teeth on Hungarian as per his compromise with the Hungarian rebels, whereas the Neolog leader addressed him in literary Hungarian.