Re: World English (was: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs)

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Kershaw
> It's already declining, it's just a matter of how long it
> will take to get down to 1.
>
> ====
>
> I'm sure there were Romans who had the sentiment once upon a
> time about Latin, and Greeks about Greek, and Frenchmen about
> French, and....
Those were different times, when travel and communications were still slow
and people's perception of "the world" meant their little piece of the
world.  The best they had then was a messenger on horseback.  They didn't
have television, telephones, radio, the internet, airplanes, trains, cars or
any of those other recent inventions that allow us move about and
communicate almost instantaneously.

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