| From: | Charles <catty@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 18:00 |
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:> > On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote: > > > i wonder whether english native speakers around the world will still > > understand each other in a century.Actually, since 1776, we haven't.> I hope not! But it will be centuries, if not millenia before the world > is as interesting linguistically again as it was a century ago.And there *was* a European (Mediterranean) interlingua, "the" Lingua Franca, but it died somewhen around 1850, or perhaps survives in all the other so-called pidgins.