Re: One language for the world

Barry Garcia wrote:
> An interesting thing i've noticed here is, Older Filipinos prefer to speak
> in their native languages to eachother. My dad often has to clarify things
> for my grandmother in her language when he speaks to her (She's fluent in
> English). Younger Filipinos who still know the language, do prefer
> English.
Hmmm, makes me wonder if that's the first stages of English becoming the
main language, or even sole language?  Do you mean by that last sentence
that even younger Filipinos from the same region, who would have the
same mother-tongue, prefer to speak to each other in *English*?

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