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Not being a scholar of world language changes, I could hazard a guess
that the language used on the internet could become the dominant one.
So far that language is English and the next closest is German as
determined by the number of web sites is either of the two languages.
I read somewhere that the number of German websites is less than 15% of
total. <br>
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About China, likely that country will become a major economic force in
the next few decades but learning to read and write Mandarin is a
fairly daunting task. My guess is that an easier language such as
English will remain as the favored internet lingo.<br>
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Gerry Reinhart-Waller<br>
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Christian Rauh wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">And English is not pure, so it's an example of what
world languages have always been.
Steve Hovland
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From: Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D. [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:SMTP:ljohnson@solution-consulting.com">SMTP:ljohnson@solution-consulting.com</a>]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:40 AM
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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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.etymonline.com/">http://www.etymonline.com/</a>
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:
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<pre wrap="">hi,
This is what the world of commerce is speaking.
Linguisitics
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/Home_Linguistics.html">http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/Home_Linguistics.html</a>
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. "
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