> From: Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> William T Goodall wrote: > > >Now consider that Korea (AFAIK) has the highest penetration of broadband > >internet in the world, that Chinese ideographs are the most common written > >language etc and it seems likely that in a few years most spam (and most of > >the www for that matter) will be in ideographs rather than English. > > > I think that's personal/domestic penetration. US companies still pour an > awful lot of stuff onto the net through some fairly big pipes. And I > think that those same high bandwidth users in Korea have a fairly high > proportion of English speakers among them. > > Regardless, I think English will remain the > dominant language on the net for a while yet. If only because keyboards are great for the 60 some characters used by latin based languages, instead of the 6000 - 12000 required in some oriental languages. Besides English is the lingua franca.
