Roland Turner wrote:
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 00:18 +1000, John Elliot wrote:Roland Turner wrote:John: IIUC, English is _the_ most widely spoken language in the world.Read all about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language If it's wrong: fix it.It's not incorrect. You've simply confused their headline figures (which are a lower bound) with "can't understand English". The vast majority of the excluded dialects and creoles are close enough that, for the purposes of this conversation, their speakers can understand English.
Good. ...because English is *totally* where it's at. ;)Hopefully we can spread literacy, so the, er, "conversation" isn't lopsided...
Can you imagine a world in which dialects and symbols, rather than adhering to their distinct delineated categories, fused?
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