In article <3473723c.200248081@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, miker3@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rubenstein) writes: >According to the World Almanac there are almost twice as many speakers >of Mandarin (999 million) as of English (487 million). > By the shear number of speakers, the Mandarin speakers are predominant. However, the universally used language is, and will be, some varient of English. -- Boyd Roberts UTM N 31 447109 5411310 En fin, bon, bref, si tu veux, point � la ligne, voil� quoi -- Jacques SPAT: fred@ultramax.net