which language would be the globe language in future - Page 12

dusio · 08-09-2007, 09:22 AM

Why esperanto?

CJtrig · 09-09-2007, 03:50 AM

I study Chinese and it's true that the chinese characters rarely indicate the exact pronunciation of a character .

Pherdnut · 09-13-2007, 05:59 AM

For the next century or so, I think English is the winner. A more thoroughly phonetic language like Spanish or Norwegian would make more sense but English is the language that most programming languages are based on, it's had a good head start on the internet for some time now, and it's the most common language used for Western international relations.

I seriously doubt the rest of the world is ever going to warm up to the idea of everybody having a passing fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese. I could learn Arabic a lot faster than I could learn those and I imagine most of the rest of the world with vaguely phonetic character systems could too.

dusio · 09-13-2007, 08:34 PM

I agree with you.

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CJtrig Brand New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2 CJtrig is an unknown character at this point	I study Chinese and it's true that the chinese characters rarely indicate the exact pronunciation of a character .
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09-13-2007, 05:59 AM	#80 (permalink)
Pherdnut Brand New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3 Pherdnut is an unknown character at this point	For the next century or so, I think English is the winner. A more thoroughly phonetic language like Spanish or Norwegian would make more sense but English is the language that most programming languages are based on, it's had a good head start on the internet for some time now, and it's the most common language used for Western international relations. I seriously doubt the rest of the world is ever going to warm up to the idea of everybody having a passing fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese. I could learn Arabic a lot faster than I could learn those and I imagine most of the rest of the world with vaguely phonetic character systems could too.
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09-13-2007, 08:34 PM	#81 (permalink)
dusio Only death is certain... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: I live in Poland Posts: 851 dusio is learning to walk	You're right... I agree with you.
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