Is English special because it's 'Globish'?

Good little takedown of all these horrible books that talk about how English, due to its special characteristics (imaginativeness? simplicity??), was destined to take over the world. Good to see a linguist with a sense of public-intellectual responsibility--nobody would ever make the same destiny argument about, like, 'the white race', but in language anything apparently still goes, and I'm grateful to McWhorter for his countersalvo. Written as a review of Robert McCrum's Globish, but god knows it could apply to others--Bill Bryson, I'm looking at you. ( )