Why different languages?
Why different languages?
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Because of ancestral geographical localism nations communities developed their own code of speaking their own language. With the actual universalism concept and communications facilities the world tendency is to speak a unique language apart from native languages. The English language is well positioned to play that role. In the future all of the world will speak English.
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Luis Marques





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Next, I am guessing Arabic (state is currently encouraging Arabic so that they can develop interpreters and other people to work for the government/agencies).
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Chris
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I understand American (mostly).
Je parle un peu le Francais.
Soy Anglais, no hablo espanole (or something like that).
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Huh?
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You beat me to it Ron.
Chris
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Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."
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Chris
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ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)
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I be
You be
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She be
They be
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Robert
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I once heard that Idaho never enters a contestant in the annual Miss Ebonics competition.
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English is nothing but a world Creole language as Portuguese is at a lower scale.
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They be tha zalt o the earth.
Bill
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"Axe me about ebonics"
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World languages used through Internet
Luis
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Of the 34% English users, I wonder what percentage are Indian. Do most Indians prefer English sites over Hindi?
Interesting pie chart. Care to share the source?
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So why would we soon be speaking Chinese?
Charlie
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<Reference>
Genesis 11
The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar [b] and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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Should we expect another visit soon?
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However, these were the same people that claimed to have letters sent from the government by mistake asking where you wanted the barcode tatooed on you. I believe the letter wasn't meant to have been sent till 2005, I still haven't got mine.
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You haven’t got yet the barcode tattooed on you?
Lucky on you! It is a sign that you don’t pay taxes.
Or… instead of the barcode tattoo, probably you have a fiscal number card.
Cheers
Luis
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Are we off topic or what?
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Charlie
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Babel fish is a very useful tool, Babel tower is just a Babel, any way, ingenuously I believe in a good GOD.
Luis
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Speaking here, each other, in peace, without knowing us, for sure it is a miracle of GOD. To have the capacity to learn and understand each other through a different language of our own, or through a gesture language this is the mysterious of GOD.
Cheers
Luis
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Mandarin Chinese 13.69%
Spanish 5.05%
English 4.84%
Hindi 2.82%
Portuguese 2.77%
Bengali 2.68%
Russian 2.27%
Japanese 1.99%
Standard German 1.49%
Wu Chinese 1.21%
(2004 est. - source: https
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“After weighing six factors (number of primary speakers, number of secondary speakers, number and population of countries where used, number of major fields using the language internationally, economic power of countries using the languages, and socio-literary prestige), Weber compiled the following list of the world's ten most influential languages:
(number of points given in parentheses)
1. English (37)
2. French (23)
3. Spanish (20)
4. Russian (16)
5. Arabic (14)
6. Chinese (13)
7. German (12)
8. Japanese (10)
9. Portuguese (10)
10. Hindi/Urdu (9) “
Cheers
Luis
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French in second and portuguese in ninth. Well, I don't think I will believe Weber.
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One of the most interesting passages in the Bible to me.
rmw
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I have (have tried, not have learned it). You're not kidding. But then I'm pretty much a language idiot. Anyone know a really really easy language for me to learn? ;)
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Flobbadob !
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For the unintitiated who think we've lost our minds (you're probably right);
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The European commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English" (or preferably, "SI English").
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have
one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords containing "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.