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Re: [ProgSoc] Drying up, hands or money



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?
Who knows... maybe you'd learn something? :)







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