On 11/21/2014 03:53 AM, mt wrote:
On 21/11/14 at 8:33 AM, davian...@gmail.com (Urmas) wrote:
"Brian Barker":
the number of speakers of Mandarin as a first language is more than twice that
for English
Would you please follow your own logic and repeat your query in Mandarin
Not even Chinese speak Mandarin.
However, everyone of consequence on our Earth speaks English.
Also, netiquette states clearly: English or nothing.
I'm sure even you would benefit from perfecting your non-native English and
broadening your view on languages. Understanding French, as well as English,
German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Arabic will make it much easier for you
to communicate over the Internet. Which is the only reason for 'netiquette' to
exist: no communication, no need for netiquette. Right? :-)
mt
Like it or not, Urmas is fundamentally right: the modern lingua franca is
English. If there is a secondary language, it is probably Spanish,
since it is the language of most of South America. Or maybe Russian, which mt
never even considered. Or maybe Arabic, altho it suffers
from a difficult written form. I would doubt that Chinese will ever become a
world-wide language unless and until it converts to a Latin alphabet.
--doug
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