Re: Greenberg's universals for SVO languages & Caos Pidginruff-sketch

Jonathan Chang wrote:
>     ::shrug of shoulders:: Maybe the Indonesians will spearhead the
> colonization of space...if the Chinese don't .
:-)  Well, English was a very minor language in 1500, and now it's a
major world language.  Who knows?  Maybe some small country (like, say,
Finland or Romania) today will lead the colonization of Space, and thus
their lang will be a major Solar language.  :-)

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