From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 13:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EAB537B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4269 invoked by uid 100); 2 Dec 2000 21:20:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14889.26501.315327.881370@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:20:05 -0600 (CST) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyr'd with all this pronunciation thread In-Reply-To: <113280342@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson types: > Anyway. It's the only international language we have, so > you are stuck with it my friends. No, it isn't. I'm not sure what the current status of Russian is in the former warsaw pact countries, but it used to occupy the same position as English in them. Chinese would be a better choice - there are more chinese speakers than any other language in the world. English is the most popular language in the world as a second (or maybe it's third) language. Of course, none of those three are really international languages. They are national languages that dominate some fields because of the dominance - either political or just in the field - of some country that speaks them. German and Latin both used to be in that position, but have fallen out of favor. There are true international languages, but they don't have enough acceptance to be worth doing translations for. Of course, once one is done, you'd have a major in with the people who have bothered to learn them. Anyone want to start a translation project for either Loglan or Esperanto? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message