On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:50, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancic
> wrote:
>
>> There won't be new lingua franca. ~30 years is now very small amount
>> of time for changing behavior of the global society, while it is very
>> large amount of time for machine translators
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Erik Zachte wrote:
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>
>> I am of course thinking about the list of 1000 articles
>> each wikipedia should have. Just completing a
>> significant part of that list is an accomplishment for
>> a tiny pool of editors, but is within reach,
2009/8/23 Mark Williamson :
> Anyhow as I said before, language shift is very much related to
> attitudes and perceived language prestige. When doing business abroad,
> English is often the language of communication between Chinese
> companies and local employees and businesses. The day the Chinese
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:36 AM, 오현성 wrote:
> The only language that has become a world lingua franca to date is English,
> and although British colonialism was clearly the original reason for this,
> the dominant form of English over much of the world now is American English.
> The U.S. has never
2009/8/23 Mark Williamson :
> Getting "involved overseas" isn't the same as colonization.
> There has been buzz about American colonialism and whatnot but the US
> has few true colonies and none of any substantial size or population.
However, people learning English frequently demand the America
2009/8/23 Mark Williamson
> I disagree. All languages that have had a chance of becoming world
> lingua francas - English, French, perhaps Spanish, are some recent
> examples - were not only the languages of economic or political
> powers, they were also the languages of vast colonial empires.
>
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> I doubt if any regional expert would put any stock in the idea of
> China doing a foreign policy 360 and invading a neighboring country at
> this point in its history or in the near future.
I was thinking more along the lines of decades th
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> There won't be new lingua franca. ~30 years is now very small amount
> of time for changing behavior of the global society, while it is very
> large amount of time for machine translators. (Translation engines
> between similar languages are v
Getting "involved overseas" isn't the same as colonization.
There has been buzz about American colonialism and whatnot but the US
has few true colonies and none of any substantial size or population.
I doubt if any regional expert would put any stock in the idea of
China doing a foreign policy 36
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> I disagree. All languages that have had a chance of becoming world
> lingua francas - English, French, perhaps Spanish, are some recent
> examples - were not only the languages of economic or political
> powers, they were also the languages
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