2009/8/23 Mark Williamson <[email protected]>: > Anyhow as I said before, language shift is very much related to > attitudes and perceived language prestige. When doing business abroad, > English is often the language of communication between Chinese > companies and local employees and businesses. The day the Chinese > begin to insist on doing business with only Chinese speakers is the > day the world decides to learn Chinese. It is essentially a (bad) > attitude of "We are better than you and so we do not need to learn > your language, you should learn ours" that has resulted, I think, in > the dominance of English.
"But Europe is filled with foreigners!" > Mark _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
