Hi,
At Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:06:37 +0100,
Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the following scenario completely inconceivable?
It is as easy as developing a common word for "Morning", "Morgen", and
so on in European languages, abolishing "legacy" languages such as
English, German, French, Finnish, Greek, and so on and let all European
people use the new language. Your scenario will need as much political
effort as this scinario.
"Interesting challenge"? Sure, like uniting European languages. The
"enormous" work will be done by "non-profit organization", otherwise
we will have to use Microsoft Language (TM) or Sun OpenLanguage (TM).
"Long-term solution"? Maybe the "world language" will solve everything.
I am not kidding. I insist your scinario will be as difficult as the
"world language" or "European language".
Please note taht "caligraphy experts with internationally recognised
good taste" cannot exist. Regardless of whether you like or not,
language is a somewhat political problem. Doesn't your language have
endless flamewar for the "ideal state" of language among scholors and
citizens? Each opinion has its own raison d'etre which is much more
strong and reasonable than "to be compliant to Unicode".
And more, language is living. It cannot be fully controlled by
government. Ministry of Education Standard and Japanese education
system? Even Ministry of Education (from this spring, it became
Ministry of Education and Science) sometimes admit the natural
evolution of language.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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