On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 05:08:51PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >What's the chance of Mandarin being the next lingua franca? > > Low, I think. But any number of events could prove me wrong.
I hope you're right, I'm getting to old to learn another language, especially non-indoeuropean one. But the compartments seem to be quite stable, it takes a conscious effort to see them. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
