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From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rubenstein)
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/19
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On 19 Nov 1997 18:48:10 GMT, "Mike Smith"
<kld_msmith@earthlink.nospam.net> wrote:

>JCore <jcorez@juno.com> wrote in article
><34710873.4313003@news.linkonline.net>...
>> On 17 Nov 1997 23:57:47 GMT, "John Rickard"
>> <saskan@worldnet.att.net.DONTSPAMME> wrote:
>> 
>> >there are not more chinese speakers than english.
>> >if you have not relized it but the english language it the most
>> >widely used language as a standard. why? cause us americans want it
>> >that way ;)
>> 
>> Um, actually Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world.
>> Sorry to have to be the American to break it to you.  Oh yeh, and I
>> agree with the original article too.
>
>Define "widely".  There certainly are an awful lot of Chinese-speakers in
>the world.  But English is spoken in countries on every continent of the
>globe (except South America? - I mean national tongue, not that one or more
>people speak it).  It seems certain that, among people who speak at least
>two languages, more people speak English as a second language than Chinese.
> English is the language of choice for international organizations and for
>other international standards, e.g. English is the chosen language for
>pilots, air traffic controllers, etc.  One hears English-language songs on
>European radio all the time, but one almost never hears
>non-English-language songs on American radio (I can't speak for
>Commonwealth nations).  I don't know about the exact numbers of English vs.
>Chinese speakers (don't forget India - not exactly a small country), but
>certainly English is more "widely" spoken than Chinese.
>
>Is that because "we" (yes I'm American as if that weren't obvious) want it
>that way?  Maybe.  But I think the UK deserves at least some of the
>credit/blame.  ;-)

According to the World Almanac there are almost twice as many speakers
of Mandarin (999 million) as of English (487 million).

Michael M Rubenstein