[Paleopsych] World language change

[Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D.]

Mao Tse tung seriously considered changing the language of china to 
english, to deal with the inefficiencies of the written language.

Steve Hovland wrote:

>I think that because of the web English is becoming
>even more entrenched.
>
>Chinese has an inefficient written language.
>
>I think the day of world "peace" being enforced
>by any one state may be past.
>
>Steve Hovland
>www.stevehovland.net
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Christian Rauh [SMTP:christian.rauh at uconn.edu]
>Sent:	Monday, March 14, 2005 7:13 AM
>To:	The new improved paleopsych list
>Subject:	[Paleopsych] World language change
>
>I was wondering how does a world language change? And how will that
>process occur in our current time. Faster I would guess?
>
>The world language has always been the language of whoever is most
>influential. Latin when the Catholic Church was running things, French
>when France was bullying around, then English when the England Empire
>was always sunny, and now US English.
>
>But how does that world language change process occurs?
>
>Imagine the Chinese became the new superpower as some people are afraid.
>How will the world language change to Chinese? Are going to see so many
>chinese webpages that we'll all enroll in Chinese classes? Books and
>articles would start being published mostly in Chinese?
>
>Has anyone studied these world language transitions?
>
>Christian
>
>Steve Hovland wrote:
>  
>
>>And English is not pure, so it's an example of what 
>>world languages have always been.
>>
>>Steve Hovland
>>www.stevehovland.net
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:	Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D. [SMTP:ljohnson at solution-consulting.com]
>>Sent:	Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:40 AM
>>To:	The new improved paleopsych list
>>Subject:	Re: [Paleopsych] The next world language
>>
>>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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