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To: saquin

English is in? Yes, because America rules the World. OOH YEAH. But, in 20 years, Chinese will be in, and all of us here, will be telling our children, eat your rice with chop sticks, kid, don't you wanna fit in? Hell, by that time, we'll probably all know how to operate our remote control with chop sticks.


5 posted on 01/14/2005 10:01:57 PM PST by grandpiano007 (http://new-democrat.blogspot.com Yes I'm a Zell Miller Democrat.)
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To: grandpiano007; jkid2; Timedrifter
English is a awful language to learn. The pronunciation<->spelling rules are completely inconsistent, and the conjugation rules for verbs are a mess of special cases.
I'm not a bit fan of amazingly-difficult-to-learn Asian languages either.
It's a bit of a shame that an Latin-based language, like Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, is not the predominant world language. Their grammatical rules are typically much more elegant.
8 posted on 01/14/2005 10:13:05 PM PST by ddantas (q)
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To: grandpiano007

Mandarin, which is a tonal language will be in ? No way :)


13 posted on 01/14/2005 10:21:53 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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