Re: Stop it all ! It's a case of emergency !
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 30, 2004, 19:59 |
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In a message dated 2004:04:29 04:04:55 PM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:
>If it's Yellowstone - The most likely place to survive would be around
>the opposite side of the world. Or surrounding it. Thus, It'll be the
>south pacific. So, maybe Bahasa Indonesia, English, and Tok Pisin will
>be the last language to survive...
Don't forget Bislama and Singlish.
In this scenario, I think Bahasa Indonesia and Tok Pisin (or some form of
English-lexifier pidgin) might be the largest languages. Then they might
merge into one interlanguage...
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