On 12/31/2000 11:47:37 AM Alain LaBonté wrote:
À 05:40 2000-12-31 -0800, Darya Said-Akbari a écrit:
Hello Alain,
Now think there would be one guy from Iran and this guy would say that not
english or french but farsi should be the real universal language. Think
that
farsi is spoken in Iran,
Hi,
Why do we discuss the issue whether english is the universal language or not.
Unicode stands not for english as the universal language but for all people on
this planet to talk in any language they like. Let the Chinese read the
internet in Chinese, the Iranians in Farsi and so on. I really
At 4:53 AM -0800 12/31/00, Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 07:48 -0800 2000-12-30, scríobh Patrick Andries:
School curricula are quite crowded
already. Every extra language you add is less time for math or
history or science or the native language. And where do you find the
teachers for all
Last century, Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 17:52 -0800 2000-12-29, scríobh Elliotte Rusty Harold:
The average citizen of any country has neither
the time, money, nor interest to learn more than two languages;
Assuming that some countries have only one language in day-to-day use,
the average
I believe the rationale is that currency signs in general (dollar, yen,
euro, etc) should not be ignorable. If you talk a look at the UCA tables
(the 14651 and UCA data are sync'ed) you will find more information about
these characters. UCA marks them explicitly, and provides for different
Erland Sommarskog wrote:
"Carl W. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My vote is for Portuguese. Because it was re-latinized it is closer to the
Latin roots that any other Romance language. Thus it makes a great linga
franca.
I am not sure this is that ideal. I find Brazilian and Iberian
On the last day of the 20th century, one of the 20th century's legends in
the field of linguists, Dr. Kenneth Pike, passed away. Dr. Pike studied in
the late 1930s / early 1940s under some of the early founders of American
linguistics - Sapir, Bloomfield, Trager and Fries - and made significant
At Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:43:18 -0800 (GMT-0800), Antoine Leca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- a living language, as opposed to a dead one, should evolve (this is
exactly the problem French is currently having, by the way); trying
to stick with a past reference is going exactly backwards; Esperanto
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