[Paleopsych] The next world language

[G. Reinhart-Waller]

Thank you for the marvelous link.  As far a speaking a language, what 
about someone who has knowledge of three but can only speak one?  Does 
that sound like another American?

Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Independent Scholar



Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D. wrote:

> A colleague who is an international business consultant says same. 
> English is lingua franca everywhere, from Asia to Europe. He said he 
> was at a meeting with both German and French workers, and they speak 
> English as the common language. I love English. Here is a great resource:
>    http://www.etymonline.com/
>
> That said, here is a quiz:
>
> What do you call someone who speaks three languages?
>    Trilingual
>
> What about someone who speaks two languages?
>    Bilingual
>
> And what do we call someone who speaks one language?
>    American
>
> Lynn
>    -former trilingual
> fluent in English, capable in Spanish, German has almost totally 
> disappeared. If we could only get a lot of illegal Germans waiting on 
> me at McDonalds's I could get my German back quickly.
>
> K.E. wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>>
>> This is what the world of commerce is speaking.
>>
>> Linguisitics
>> http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/Home_Linguistics.html
>>
>> see: Netglish
>>
>> "Nine out of ten computers connected to the internet are located in 
>> English-speaking countries and more than 80% of all home pages on the 
>> web are written in English.
>>
>> More than four fifths of all international organisations use English 
>> as either their main or one of their main operating languages.
>>
>> At the moment no other language comes anywhere near English. The next 
>> biggest is German. But less than 5% of web home pages are in German. "
>>
>> Karen Ellis
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