Re: [issues] RE: English dominance, was : Demographics - Reprise

2000-01-14 Thread Sunnanvind
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > Unlikely to succeed. Can you imagine a style here> song in Latin? Probably not. Mmm, hey, I can (Cranberries 'Electric Blue' is partially in latin) - but I still don't think that the plan will succeed - I do think English is a beautiful language (my

Re: [issues] RE: English dominance, was : Demographics - Reprise

2000-01-14 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Janus wrote: > At 12:49 AM 01/14/2000 +0100, you wrote: > > > >So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I suppose. > >But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real genders isn't > >feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English speakers

[issues] RE: English dominance, was : Demographics - Reprise

2000-01-14 Thread Janus
At 12:49 AM 01/14/2000 +0100, you wrote: > >So what would you like? "Its" wouldn't be nice to both genders, I suppose. >But inventing a "fourth" gender which means both real genders isn't >feasible, too? You would confuse us non-native English speakers and we'd >probably turn to Esperanto instead