Proficiency in English may not be the test, but it's a mark of intelligence.

You can say that the English language is not superior to your language and I'll totally agree. But the argument that it's just a language and not "A" test of intelligence is weak and belittling a key component of the liberal arts.

According to me, being able to get your point across in Lingala, Swedish, English, Tukulorr, or any other language, in a clear and effective manner may not be 'THE' test of intelligence, but it certainly is 'A' mark of intelligence, especially a foreign language.

Did you notice how my use of the definite grammatical article "the" and the indefinite article "a" in the above paragraph made all the difference? C'mon yen tamit, that degree of comfort and familiarity with the command gotta amount to something.