Whybdo I get the feeling an American wrote this 馃ぃ
No hate to my American friends, the post is clearly morrocan but I've experienced some very patronising praise of my ability to speak English over the years 馃ぃ
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It literally says [i]British[/i] on the sign, and in this context French is presumably only listed as relic of Morocco's colonial past.
Nevertheless, there is some truth to it. English is the de facto language of all air traffic control towers around the world, it's very common among software developers around the world (and I've never seen a programming language that was not based on English), it's a lingua franca among continental Europeans, it has a simpler writing system than Mandarin (or other Asian languages), and the Anglophone portion of the post-colonial world is sizable. Even among continental European languages, Spanish would have more applicability around the world than French (or Dutch), with Latin America being a sizable landmass, the majority of which is Spanish-speaking.
Moreover, a single planet having more than one human language is not culture preservation, it is a problematic and pointless communication barrier persisted by irrational emotional attachments (the kind of thing that also leads to tribalism, sectarianism, ethnonationalism, fascism, etc.), not by logic or common sense. If Earth is ever visited by, oh, say, Klingons, which language will be the "Earth" language? Klingons surely won't give a damn about all of our arbitrary "nations".
