----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Firshman"
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 08:55:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Won't be long before some versions of English are classed as separate languages I suppose, since there are significant differences (not just accents) between English as spoken on the various continents. The most widely used second language in the world...
Tony Firshman replied:
Indeed it is. There are more English speakers in China and the Far East than in the UK and America combined I think.
I recently read that the reason a pictogram reading system has survived in Chinese is that the land is so big and with so many dialects, that the written language is the only thing they have in common.
Geoff
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