Re: Greenberg's universals for SVO languages & Caos Pidgin ruff-sketch
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 9, 2000, 4:51 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:08 7:58:53 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG quotes me
then writes:
>> It was once said that Malay is/was the "Italian of the Orient" (Paul
>> Carus, "Esperanto, Ilo, and Malay," _Monist_ , Chicago, XIX, #3, July
>1909...
>> Carus advocated Malay as a world language back in 1909!!!
>> Amazing...)
>[snip]
>
>Eeek! *shuddering in recollections of horror of being forced to learn a
>language that isn't really useful outside of Malaysia/Indonesia today*
>
Well, who knows what the future may bring... "... Hundreds of minor
languages are currently being replaced by Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin
Chinese,English and Spanish and a depressingly small number of other
languages." (Steven Roger Fischer, _A History of Language_ 1999)
::shrug of shoulders:: Maybe the Indonesians will spearhead the
colonization of space...if the Chinese don't .
czHANg