Re: OT: For information only !

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--- "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> wrote:
> Philippe Caquant said:
> > Well, any project whose goal is to make people
> > understand each other is exciting, isn't it ?
>
> Of course. That's what's so exciting about ESL
> (English as a Second
> Lanaguage) programs.
>
>
>
> > When, as a bonus, one could save some millions
> > (billions?) euros in the Community budget, and
> thus
> > maybe pay less taxes, it's even more exciting.
>
> Pursuing universal bilingualism (or multilingualism)
> in English would save
> even more money for the EU, since so many people
> already speak it as an L1
> or L2. Descriptive and didactic materials are much
> more readily available
> for English than for any other language, natural or
> constructed, and
> there's a large infrastructure for teaching ESL (and
> for training ESL
> teachers themselves) already in place. International
> economic, technical
> and scientific vocabulary is already based on
> English. English is a
> national language on every continent of the world,
> and according to the
> Ethnologue, it is spoken in 104 countries -- making
> it the international
> auxiliary language of choice that it is today.
>
>
> -- Mark
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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