【2019-05-27】

最近在朋友家里看了一会儿EuroVision，之前竟不知道有这比赛，据说在澳洲还挺受欢迎，不知是不是因为近些年也开始有澳洲歌手参赛的缘故，引起我注意的一点是，我听到的那四五位歌手，全部是用英语演唱的，尽管我对英语成为世界通用语的前景早已确信无疑，但发展这么快还是超出了我的预期， 查了一下 ，我的采样并未偏离常态： Since the language rule was abolished in 1999, songs in English have become increasingly common. In 2016, all but three out of 36 semi-finalists had songs in English, with only two (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northen Macedonia) performing songs in their native languages, as Austria sent a song in French. In the final, all but three out of 26 contestants had songs in English. 而且从主办方多次改变语言规则的情形看，非英语国家的歌手用英语唱是不受鼓励的，曾两度被规则禁止，最终解禁看来是顺应大众需要而迫不得已。

从 更详细的数据 看，自从1999年规则改变之后，英语几乎一统天下。