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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: boyd@france3.fr (Boyd Roberts) Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/20 Message-ID: <651fkk$ngu$1@route1.mdrf.france3.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291003000 Distribution: world Sender: boyd@system.mdrf.france3.fr (Boyd Roberts) References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <64qllr$c45@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <34710873.4313003@news.linkonline.net> <01bcf51b$abcea520$0200000a@kld_mcs> <3473723c.200248081@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Organization: France 3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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