Re: FTL - Futuristic Theoritical Languages (wasRe: The League of Lost Languag...

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:46:00 EDT, John Leland <lelandconlang@...> wrote:
> My personal belief is that since English is becoming the dominant world
> language (especially on the Internet) and Chinese are the largest ethnic group
> (ignoring for the time being their subdivisions), we will end up with the dominant
> world language being
> English as used by Chinese speakers, especially on the Internet. I got
> exposed to some of this while teaching an online class whose students were in
> Singapore. As I am  a traditional English teacher, it made me very uncomfortable,
> but I expect it will soon be very widespread.
I'm not sure whether Singlish is representative of
English-as-used-by-Chinese speakers, though.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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