From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <64vpua$ni7@corn.cso.niu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290831136 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <64qllr$c45@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <34710873.4313003@news.linkonline.net> <01bcf51b$abcea520$0200000a@kld_mcs> Reply-To: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu Organization: N.Ill.U. Physics Dept. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Mike Smith" writes: >JCore wrote in article ><34710873.4313003@news.linkonline.net>... >> On 17 Nov 1997 23:57:47 GMT, "John Rickard" >> 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). >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 think that speaks more to our insularity than anything else. >I don't know about the exact numbers of English vs. >Chinese speakers (don't forget India - not exactly a small country), My info is that 4% of Indians speak and read English. How many speak but don't read it? dunno. >Is that because "we" (yes I'm American as if that weren't obvious) want it >that way? Maybe. I think it is pretty clearly yes. We can debate whether this is "ugly" and/or "understandable" some other time. >But I think the UK deserves at least some of the credit/blame. ;-) The U.K. mostly takes credit for making it one of the languages of choice in its former colonies. Morphis@physics.niu.edu Real Women change tires abuse@uu.net postmaster@uu.net Real Men change diapers security@uu.net