yeah but how many of those are like Tiwa/Tewa/Towa -- spoken by six people and taboo to be taught to outsiders? Personally I think language diversity is rather like biodiversity -- a good thing, just in case. There are thoughts that can't be thunk in English. Do you know that French has no word for "pattern"? Which may explain the Maginot line. Just an example. Just another, do you know that sign language involves "facial grammar"? Now there's a concept for ya. How do you do an online test of that? (small aside from my work)
Dana >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_in_the_United_States >"Approximately 337 languages are spoken or signed by the population, of >which 176 are indigenous to the area. 52 languages formerly spoken in the >country's territory are now extinct (Grimes 2000)." > >Sign Language is the only way to go. While it may be cool to interact with >others in Spanish or those other 337 lanuages, I'd like to be able to talk >to anyone in English! >-- >Casey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:233579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
