你好 DIETER, 0. An interesting fact - There are more English speaking (as a second[+n] language) people in China than there are English speaking people in North America.
1. There are currently more web pages in "Chinese script" than in any other language. 2. Soon, URLs and email addresses in Chinese (only) will appear more and more. 3. Items i. 3, and the consideration that perhaps 2 billion or more (more than 1/3 of the total world population) people can read/write/speak (some dialect of) Chinese casts serious doubt on your "obvious answer". Of course, you can argue that your statement is supported by 0. But the direction could easily change.... On 2010/01/31 10:38 , DIETER ENSSLEN wrote: > amazing, how you write the Chinese symbols > > simplified of course did not look particularly simplified, even on close > inspection. > > the answer to me is obvious: the whole world is moving relentlessly towards > English, the universal language. So the simplified Chinese of the future will > be English, no matter how much the Quebecois and the Parisians and others try > to prevent the trend to English is powerful. The Chinese foreign minister > spoke very good English yesterday. > > lingua franca. > > used to be Latin, is and will be increasingly English. > > the world is incapable of learning Chinese script and probably language and > grammar. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
