From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <I wonder if Esperanto is a metric only language. Does anyone know if Esperanto accommodates FFU?>
That's a good question. I understand that Esperanto is largely derived from Italian, so it might. There are also other "synthetic" languages such as Interlang and Eurolang. Whether we like it or not, however, English seems to be the de facto global language. I was surprised to read (in an article by Dr. Baj Kaschru, an Indian academician) that the move to English is being influenced much more by China and India than by the US or Britain. He said that both countries tend to use English as a "uniting tongue" because being of outside origin makes it politically neutral, which avoids the jealousies and resentments that would result if their governments chose one local language as the "official" one for business communication. -- Jason
